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[…] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)23 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.24 In that, […]

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[…] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)23 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.24 In that, […]

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[…] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)10 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.11 In that, […]

Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] zones as he followed the consequences of the American foreign policy in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The chapters follow the chronology: the imposition of sanctions on Iraq (and about one millions deaths as a result; a UN-sanctioned atrocity); the invasion of Afghanistan and the initial overthrow of the Taliban; the American-led assault on […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)23 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.24 In that, […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] MacQueen who says that it was a key part of the 9/11 events that took the United States and its allies to war in Afghanistan and then Iraq. He claims much more, but first a reminder of the events themselves. Within days of 9/11 a number of people received letters containing anthrax spores, the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] 9 See . 3 intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra to the War on Iraq.’ That last sentence says in polite academic terms what I would put this way: false intelligence was critical to the recreation of the Soviet ‘threat’. When […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in time people will understand this is not a problem we have caused, it’s a problem we have got caught up in….The reasons Kosovo worked and in Iraq and Afghanistan it was really difficult was because of the intervention of radical Islam….’1 3 Never mind the Anglo-American support during the last half century for […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] itself as “one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry.”) When viewed in the context of the US/ NATO wars in Iraq and Kuwait (The Gulf War: 1990-1991), Kosovo (1999), Afghanistan (2001–present), and Iraq (2003–2011), one could even conclude that the grand vision of Cheney and others in […]

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[…] that of the United States national security structure’.12 And the Foreign Affairs review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like the UK) was just a mistake caused by the US and Saddam Hussein not understanding each other. Having thus […]

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