Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] John Ward recently on his excellent blog The Slog.90 Dodgy dossier 2 Well, here we are in the blood and chaos caused by the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, ‘justified’ by the ‘dodgy dossier’ prepared for Mr Blair by his allies within the UK intelligence agencies, and what has Whitehall done? Created another ‘dodgy dossier’ […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] principally as a result of the actions over a decade ago of ‘Crusader’ President Bush and his sidekick Prime Minister Blair (the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq), the domino effect still in progress (now in Syria), has led to the decimation throughout the region of all ancient Middle Eastern Christian communities. This Christian […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] a wider failure. Though there were shining exceptions, the mainstream media as a whole failed to tell truth to power in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. It should always be taken into account that it was not only politicians and officials who failed in their duty.’ Self-criticism usually gives weight to that […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] on the implications of the Brussels bombings. ‘The officials,’ we learned, included ‘European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker’ who variously ‘described camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly the former Soviet bloc where attackers are trained to target the West.’ 18 ‘And possibly’ seems a very generous way of putting an insinuation […]
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]: […] came to the use of force in a dangerous and faraway theatre…. George wobbled. One by one the Gulf states decided it was safer to deal with Iraq than to defy it and at the Treaty of Baghdad in 1992 agreed to raise oil prices to pay for a programme of Islamic industrialisation. Prime […]
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 […]