Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] a markedly more radical and consistent view of the world than those of his predecessor – one of the columnists for conflict at the time of the Iraq War – and lifted by his 2011 book Chavs. Following David Aaronovitch’s route to The Guardian, Jones does not seem likely to emulate the reactionary trajectory […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] by Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (known as the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) in Somalia was considered a great success. The British made use of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Egypt, Russia and the Sudan, and even considered making use of it against any revolutionary outbreaks in Britain itself. It was not just deployed against insurgents, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero interest in the Blair Doctrine when planning its attack on Iraq. It also turned out that Blair didn’t have much interest in it either. Despite France and Germany urging compliance with ongoing UN initiatives, all other options […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the same is true of all UN treaties (think of Israel’s decades-long violation of the Geneva Conventions in occupied Palestine, or Britain and America’s illegal invasion of Iraq in violation of the UN Charter, or the social security cuts across Europe in flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ad infinitum). Sadly, […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Germany 18%, Japan 21% and Russia 22%. A study of major and/or western nations shows that only Montenegro, Pakistan, Eire, Swaziland, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Angola, Malawi, Libya and Iraq invest less in their own economies than the UK. The announcements now being made about a UK economic recovery (the definition of which is rather curious) […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] ensconced at Harvard, I see no reason to conceal the truth. It is necessary to reveal this so that people can correctly evaluate his political pronouncements on Iraq and Afghanistan, and his motives in making them.’ 6 Wikileaks There is an interesting discussion of what if anything the US state can do to stop […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Labour leader on a local council miles away making a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting […]