The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] US allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. As, […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Africans, including foreign minister Pik Botha, were pulled off Pan Am Flight 103 at the last minute’.5 4 Jason Allardyce and Mark Macaskill in ‘US spies blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb’, in The Sunday Times 16 August 2009. 5 In ‘The Crime of Lockerbie’ in The Spokesman no. 105, 2009. Page 90 Winter 2009/10 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he shows that the Werrity affair wasn’t, as some suspected, part of an Israeli operation, but was a piece of the Anglo-British–Israeli preparation for an attack on Iran. Murray doesn’t comment on the operational incompetence of using the Defence Secretary’s bagman, or the possibility that the exposure of the Werrity connection has been done […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] US allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. As, […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, over the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during his presidency. President Carter raised the possibility of a nuclear attack on Iran during the hostage crisis. President Reagan presided over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] known to be a strong backer of vocal Israel supporters John McCain and Joe Lieberman.The authors write: ‘Tony Blair is publicly signed up to Saban’s views about Iran and Israel. If that were not the case, it is most unlikely that Saban would be funding his Faith Foundation…. Money comes with strings attached. Tony […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Acknowledgements (p. viii): ‘This is a history of things that did not officially happen using primary sources that few realise exist.’ If the subheads are familiar – Iran, Suez, Oman, Yemen, Malaya, Indonesia, British Guyana, Northern Ireland etc. – most of the content is new, thanks to an enormous effort at official file reading […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] all. The idea of slowly developing your own deterrent, as and when funds are available (the approach followed by France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran(?)) doesn’t appear to have been entertained, with a radical short-termism preferred instead. countries, and, the death penalty is no longer in force.8 However, social attitudes are […]

DEADLY BETRAYAL: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq by Dennis Fritz

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to overcome the outrage of the international community. Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz had the answer: go after the so-called state sponsors of terrorism, namely Iraq, Syria, and Iran. A cabal headed by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Doug Feith, and Gingrich formulated a strategy to crush Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s military and financial support networks in […]

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