The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in Afghanistan has given the British Army a raison d’être it has lacked for many years, and new 11 For details see the case of Fallujah in Iraq discussed at 12 The joke has it that a political gaff is a politician telling the truth. 13 LVO = Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order. […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] (2010), purports to be a memoir of the MRF period. As to its veracity, I have no idea. 13 For details see the case of Fallujah in Iraq discussed at . 14 15 Wilson’s letter with the links therein can be read at . 6 Catholics. The response of the Army and police was […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] not purely a matter of self-interest. As a candidate, he often railed against the foreign policies of his predecessors, Democrat and Republican alike — in particular the Iraq war, a debacle that was inseparable from the failures of the intelligence community. After it was reported in December 2016 that the C.I.A. had concluded that […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] involved at the highest level in running America’s Empire, from the Battles of Fallujah to commanding US Central Command (CENTCOM) that covered some twenty countries including both Iraq and Afghanistan. While his credentials as a servant of US Imperialism are impeccable, to give him his due, when he was first contacted by Vice President […]

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[…] Mail from an Iranian defector,2 4 matches precisely what I was shown in a secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

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[PDF file]: […] then the powerful Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy, enjoying an unprecedented influence over civil servants, Cabinet ministers and Labour MPs. He stood down after the Iraq invasion in 2003 but became Labour’s communication director for the 2005 general election. In the 2019 one Campbell canvassed for former Liverpool Labour MP and director […]

Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] secret force in the US national security apparatus’. It only went public after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Scahill explores JSOC’s record during the occupation of Iraq. Here the US Army found itself fighting a full-blown insurgency which, for a while, actually looked capable of making the American position untenable. The scale of […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2018 newsletter from Central Staffs Crossfit stated how they, ‘. . . wanted to recognise Danny Gratton who took part in the 12k run in Erbil Northern Iraq.’ 62 This brief mention in the fitness club’s newsletter included a couple of snaps of the intrepid Mr Gratton on location. A report from Kurdistan24 explains […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and Mandelson, Roger Alton, now a senior Murdoch executive on The Times. As 15 16 editor of The Observer in 2002, Alton vigourously supported the invasion of Iraq which was strongly backed by Mandelson and MacShane. When Alastair met Lance A Cambridge man himself, but grateful for their Iraq war support, was Alastair Campbell, […]

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