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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] numbers to such unquantified amounts such as how much petrol, diesel and oil the military consume in a year; how much depleted uranium it has scattered over Iraq (and how many people will die or be injured as a result.) Not to forget the human cost of the war in Iraq, on which the […]
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 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file]: […] not to build council houses which has marked every administration since Mrs Thatcher’s; the poll tax (only repealed because Mrs Thatcher had been ejected); railway privatisation; the Iraq war; the constant ‘reforms’ to the NHS and education; the privatisation of the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]: […] 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 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] today, Turle has most recently worked for Janusian Security Risk Management (which itself is a part of the much larger Risk Advisory Group). Janusian have been in Iraq since 2003. 18 KMS have even been overtly approved as a UK government contractor. For a short period of time their work included the ‘Armed protection […]