Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] joining the government as Minister for European Trade and Competitiveness. He, too, inevitably became a Baron, courtesy of New Labour. As the US government prepared for the Iraq War, Browne publicly warned ‘the Blair government that British oil companies would lose out against their American 10 Tom Bower, The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] given the earlier Soviet experience in Afghanistan, good sense should have been enough to avoid this entanglement. What we have to deal with in both Afghanistan and Iraq is American hubris, something into which Tony Blair’s New Labour government wholly and disastrously bought. One criticism of the book is Farrell’s readiness to sometimes accept […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] fraud the UK may have to leave the Union. Huh? Did someone say the world of politics is getting complicated? This appeared in the Daily Telegraph. ‘ Iraq . . . The most disgusting abuse of power in a generation and a moral quagmire that never ends. America is attacked by terrorists and so, […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] not to build council houses which has marked every administration since Mrs Thatcher’s; the poll tax (only repealed because Mrs Thatcher had been ejected); railway privatisation; the Iraq war; the constant ‘reforms’ to the NHS and education; the privatisation of the utilities and of the defence research industry; the PPP system for the London […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Hersh. Later, most of them turned out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] There is nothing titillating about the routines of Homeland Security or the organisation of the US gulag. People like Jeremy Scahill do not need to masturbate in Iraq to find assassinations.17 They are the bread and butter business of the police and drug enforcement offices in every major US city. And torture – well, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the Comintern agent Willi Munzenberg! This is just so much special pleading, of course. And while not defending Blair, it is worth remembering that the invasion of Iraq had a worthy predecessor in the attempt to oust President Nasser in 1956. That decent traditional Tory, Anthony Eden, had covertly conspired with the French and […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just […]