Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] American foreign policy. Thus the state which is apparently agitated about the use of ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria used depleted uranium and phosphorous in their assault on Iraq, drenched much of Vietnam and bits of Laos and Cambodia in Agent Orange, and – lest we forget – recruited the Japanese 35 I discussed this […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] time of Whitlam’s dismissal, and leaked the explosive story of Whitlam’s Iraqi benefactors, spicing it up further with allegations that Whitlam was going to leak information to Iraq about Arab discussions with Henry Kissinger. And of course, in February 1976 with Whitlam back in opposition, Mr Murdoch duly published it. However, he displayed his […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] admiration for brutal authoritarian crackdowns in North Korea and Tiananmen Square. He accused George W Bush of the treasonous offense of deliberately lying the country into the Iraq War. He habitually lied about his own position on the Iraq War. He was dismissive of key post-World War II alliances and international organizations. He was […]