Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the legislation is named after – John McCain’. This snub became the story, not the massive increase in military spending that even ‘eclipsed the peak of annual Iraq War spending’. It ‘was picked up by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, ABC, The Hill, CNN, CBS, the AP, and others’. (p. 79) […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] like those of the ‘Cambridge Three’ (then Four, then Five), and Aldrich Ames. The relationship should have reached its nadir during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, which revealed, according to your point of view, either how poor both countries’ intelligence was, or how it was manipulated by politicians for their own ends. […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] having to worry so much about the negative PR associated with body-bags: mercenaries don’t arrive back in flag-draped coffins. This disgusting story climaxes with the arrival in Iraq of maybe 100,000 mercenaries, all getting paid many times more than their state-employed equivalents (as usual privatisation means paying a great deal more for a worse […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the highest in the industrialised west. Palme was active, too, on the international stage into the 1980s, serving at one point as a mediator in the Iran- Iraq war, without success. External admirers of Sweden are usually unaware that, relative to its population, under both Erlander and Palme the country maintained a very large […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear weapons against Libya. The second Bush administration threatened the use of the same nuclear weapons during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the Obama administration contemplated their use during the 2011 NATO bombings of Libya; Sen. Hilary Clinton has told MSNBC that she would support a nuclear attack […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of Patricia Hewitt, long before the well-known 1990s assistance from the Clintonites (this is still supposed to be a secret1 2). This influence has continued: after the Iraq war Labour paid £530,372 to Mark Penn, a Washington-based adviser to Hillary Clinton. During the run-up to the 2005 election Penn ran secret polling of British […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] a few New Labour luminaries, including departed Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and convicted fraudster Denis MacShane, are part of the HJS circle that strongly backed the Iraq war and the repression of civil liberties that followed the example of the United States after 9/11. This well-referenced report tells us that the HJS promotes […]