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... had begun to embarrass sections of the London media, normally cheerleaders for 'the special relationship'. Patience Wheatcroft wrote of 'the craven kow-towing of the British Government to the Americans' in MI6's house journal, The Sunday Telegraph (9 July 2006). What that 'kow-towing' looks like was illustrated in 'Blair beefed up his Iran speech to please Bush' (Sunday Telegraph 28 May 2006) in which Toby Harnden and Patrick Hennessy reported: 'Tony Blair made significant changes to one of his most important foreign policy speeches after bowing to American objections....The Prime Minister changed key passages on possible action against Iran, climate change, and a proposed shake ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-16.htm
... Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgystan – the so-called 'colour coups'.(5 ) Knowing what the game is, the Russian state is taking steps to counter it. Hence, in part, the formation of the state-sponsored youth group Nashi (Russian for 'Our').(6 ) Similar activities are taking place in Iran. Hence the arrest, earlier this year, of Iranian academics with links to American-funded organisations.(7 )Similar techniques are being used in South America.(8 )Little of this is secret: the funding bodies have websites. For example, the National Endowment for Democracy, the major funnel of US tax dollars ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-26.htm
... Al-Ani, was the trial for treason that same year, of dozens of members of the Ba'athist party, with 22 ultimately executed. After the party massacre, 'no one dared to question any-thing. This meant that the regime of Saddam Hussein acquired infallibility through fear and silence. ' (p . 50) War with Iran was Saddam Hussein's second mistake. Egged on by the West, both sides prodigiously expended blood and treasure. Peace in 1988 was closely followed by widespread circulation of one of those strange books that mysteriously transform the global political atmosphere. Written under a pseudonym by an Iraqi architect who had spent much of his life outside the country, The ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-33.htm
... the US Embassy in Moscow advising diplomats not to travel with Pan Am back to America for Christmas. American military personnel were pulled off the plane. A delegation of South 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 Page 90 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Former CIA officer Robert Baer said: 'Your justice secretary had two choices – sneak into Megrahi's cell and smother ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-087.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 55) Summer 2008 Last | Contents | Next Issue 55 Cock-up, conspiracy, or both? Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of people from within or close to the British and American states asserting this in various forms in the ongoing blame game. To give just a few examples: ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-47b.htm
... while in the first parts of two longer articles, Rolf Gossner analyses the disappearing distinction between police and Verfassungsschutz (Germany's MI5), and Michael Opperskalski traces the background to Irangate. He shows America's failure to spot the storm to the subsequent reinforcement of the CIA contingent following a twin-track policy of supporting anti-Khomeini exile groups outside Iran while building up agent networks within the first post-revolutionary government of Medhi Basargan. They succeeded in winning over Bani Sadr (President of Iran), Amir Entesam (Deputy Prime Minister) and Admiral Ahmad Madani (Defence Minister), with the aim - among others - of saving the CIA listening posts on the Soviet/Iranian ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-13.htm
... are going to have to rely on the banking industry to haul the world economy out of recession so I am very excited about joining such a respected global institution with such an important role to play in the future. ' Lest we forget (2 ) The recent death of British-born David Kimche reminds us that there were days when Iran was not top of Israel and America's 'axis of evil' hit list, but rather the means of lubricating the foreign policy interests of both. Mossad 91 Summer 2010 founding father Kimche was a key figure in setting up the 1985 US arms-for-Iran deal when President Ronald Reagan was needing to find a way to finance the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-086.pdf
... the weather? F or several years now, specialists such as the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Programme have reported that water-related weather (hydro-meteorological phenomena) is becoming more frequent and more severe. Are the American military now using weather weapons? In May 2010, having been warned off by the US, Iran and Pakistan signed a long-standing pipeline deal, and in July 80 Ibid. 81 Wallström, 'Parliamentary questions', E-1453/2003, 3 July, 2003, <www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E -2003- 1453&language=EN> 82 BAE ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 05 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-weather-wars.pdf
... oil and gas. An even more pertinent source of information concerning the subject of this article is the April 2000 report by the Senior Fellow for Strategic Assessment in the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Professor Anthony H. Cordesma. (1 ) This report summarised analyses of energy developments in Central Asia, the Caspian and Iran provided by the Energy Information Agency (EIA) of the US Department of Energy (DOE). Cordesman had previously been a director of policy and planning in the DOE (indeed, he had held many other prestigious positions within the US Administration). At this point it should be noted that all following quotes are taken from the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-35.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 5) August 1984 Last | Contents | Next Issue 5 Things Israeli Extracts from what are claimed to be CIA analyses of Israeli intelligence services found when the US embassy in Iran was taken have been published in Imam, October 1983 through to May 1984. 17 pages in all. To this untrained eye they look genuine; ie dull enough to be genuine. There is nothing that strikes me as startling in them, but, if indeed genuine, they confirm some of the picture of the Israeli services which has appeared in various books. At one point (March extracts) the report confirms the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-08.htm
