Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

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[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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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

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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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 […]

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 […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] when she was under sedation in a military hospital. Kimche was known in Israel as ‘The Man with the Suitcase’ and conducted dangerous and secret diplomacy in Iraq, Germany and Africa. During several hospital visits he took care not to reveal his name to ‘Ruth Mayer’, who called him ‘Moses’. ‘I told him he […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] when she was under sedation in a military hospital. Kimche was known in Israel as ‘The Man with the Suitcase’ and conducted dangerous and secret diplomacy in Iraq, Germany and Africa. During several hospital visits he took care not to reveal his name to ‘Ruth Mayer’, who called him ‘Moses’. ‘I told him he […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] McDonnell, Corbyn and Diane Abbott) who openly supported Livingstone and even nominated him for the role. Even at the peak of his powers – this was pre- Iraq War – Blair thought it beneath him, and frankly unnecessary, to waste time (as he would have seen it) on a handful of London-based Trotskyists. Some […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

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[PDF file]: […] of the book. A friend of Elizabeth Forsyth read the Gerald James book In The Public Interest,4 about the destruction of James’ company, Astra, in the arms-to- Iraq 3 A quick sketch of Nadir is at . Reviewed in these columns at . For lots of detail see . 4 3 scandal. Astra had […]

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