The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (it now has three). Morrison gave an interview to the BBC in 2004 in which he said that when he heard Tony Blair claiming in 2002 that Iraq posed a ‘serious and current’ threat, he ‘could almost hear the collective raspberry going up around Whitehall.’ 19 That comment got him fired after the committee […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The British have their ‘Official Secrets’ Act. When the Wikileaks site was launched in 2007 and attained notoriety for publication of infamous actions by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, this platform was heralded and condemned for its disclosures and exposures. Julian Assange is quoted as saying that when he receives documents classified under […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE
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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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported the US invasion of Iraq. Twenty years and at least half million dead later, Blair did not apologise. Nor did he acknowledge that the intelligence he had been given was wrong. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to call it “the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Chomsky said. “It’s a very interesting phrase; it was never used before. You look back, you look at Iraq, which was totally unprovoked, nobody ever called it ‘the unprovoked invasion of Iraq’. In fact I don’t know if the term was ever used — if […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] friendless. He features a couple of times in the diaries of the period (Benn, Mullin), usually in the role of a minor comic commentator.1 6 After the Iraq war he was increasingly vituperative about Blair and despised the calculations made at the highest level of the Labour Party in 2003-2004 to readmit Livingstone so […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Left Attack Bilderberg, The Real 1% Dominated By White Males?’, Infowars, 3 June 2017, or . 6 first whispers were heard of the 1999 Kosovo and 2003 Iraq wars.’7 It is also claimed that Bilderberg instigated the 1973 Arab oil embargo, for the sinister purpose of channelling the industrialised world’s wealth via the Arab […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hardline, right-wing Republican. He first got involved in politics in 1964, campaigning for Barry Goldwater and he was one of the architects of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. He was a staunch advocate of regime change as a US strategy and was particularly exercised about Iran and the improvement in Iran’s […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] emerged as critics of liberal domestic policy, this might be a surprise to its founding members. In his analysis of the CFR’s role in the invasion of Iraq, Raso seems to think the CFR membership of many of the signatories of the Project for a New American Century was more important than the actual […]

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