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 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Labour Party’s actual history in office; but that is another matter. Which brings us to Blair’s wars. How does Brown deal with British involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting in the service of the American Empire? In his memoir, Brown remembers how on 11 September 2001 he had ‘cried at the carnage inflicted on […]
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 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with pictures of babies with gross deformities born in the Falluja hospital, is to be found in Professor Paola Manduca’s ‘The biological […]