Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Chris Tame, Tom Easton (and probably other people I have forgotten), for information. Once again there is a lot in this issue about the Anglo-American assault on Iraq. For what it is worth it seems to me that it is much more important for the world that America (and its British flunkies) get their […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] Kennan was a supporter of the Vietnam War, of the neo-Conservative revolution in foreign policy which began with Reagan, and maybe even of the recent war against Iraq. In fact since 1950 his has been one of the leading dissident voices in US foreign policy. For over 50 years Kennan has argued that his […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] columnist Kamm to be a left-winger. (For Kamm ‘left-winger’ means being a member of the Labour Party). It gives him a pitch – ‘left’ support for the Iraq War/’war on terror’ – that the media are supposed to find interesting. You can probably guess his major arguments but you might be surprised by the […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] Mattinson’s overall boss at Chime Communications, Lord Bell, was one of the beneficiaries of taxpayers’ largesse through contracts issued by the Blair government for post-invasion work in Iraq. Bell’s Bell-Pottinger – for a while home to No 10 press chief David Hill where he worked on the Monsanto account – received £3m, according to […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] of mass destruction’ – in particular those relying on nuclear technology. And all of the nations that have been on the ‘hit list’ at various points – Iraq, Iran, Libya and North Korea – had dealings with the Khan network. In the most awful irony, of those nations it was Iraq that had the […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of Iraq) and a downwardly mobile world economy which will leave millions with little hope of escaping poverty, to name but a few of the major items. Dubya […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] Nicaragua, the Greek junta, Marcos of the Philippines, Rhee of Korea, the Shah of Iran, 40 years of military dictators in Guatemala, Suharto of Indonesia, Hussein of Iraq, the Brazilian junta, Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Taliban of Afghanistan, and others. Dropping powerful bombs on the people of about 25 countries, including 40 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq Will Banyan N ow that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 has been commemorated, Osama bin Laden is officially dead and the last US combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq (though private military ‘contractors’ remain), an accounting of the ‘Global War on […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima /9-11/ Iraq John W. Dower New York: W.W. Norton, 2010, $29.95 (US), around £20 (UK), h/b Simon Matthews John Dower is a retired Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert on US-Japanese relations. His book compares Al Qaeda’s surprise attack on the US in […]