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 […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] The 9/11 attack further strengthened this Christian macho masculinity, with the Christian Right supporting not just the subsequent intervention in Afghanistan, but also the unprovoked invasion of Iraq. In 2002, ‘69 percent of conservative Christians favoured military action, a full 10 percentage points higher than the general population’. As Jerry Falwell proclaimed in a […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] he served as ambassador to Honduras during the US wars in Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s. He then went on to serve as ambassador to occupied Iraq. These assignments are only surprising to those who do not know that he learned counter-insurgency doctrine and practice as a 27-year-old in Vietnam. The same applied […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] embedding in what is for the rest of them a clear clique with a deeply pro-establishment bent. Those who were in Parliament at the time supported the Iraq war, which doesn’t bode well for their intelligence analysis. Now Brexit has sharpened some of their antipathy to the serial rebel Corbyn. Probably speaking for all […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] bomb during an air raid, with several officers killed but nevertheless reported with grim irony as ‘killed in action’! (p. 36) Smiley went on to serve in Iraq and Syria before taking part in the 2 little known British occupation of Iran, a joint operation with the Russians. For a while, he was stationed […]