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... loss of Dunfermline and West Fife, the constituency that directly adjoined Brown's seat, in a bye-election in February 2006. In a display of unprecedented disfunctionality, Brown ascended to the position of Labour Party leader and prime minister without the inconvenience of a contest for either 17 The easy choice was to go with the US on Iraq and Israel – particularly if you want a subsequent life on the US lecture circuit. 18 Between 2001 and 2005 Blair considered and rejected setting up a separate Ministry of Finance. This would have reduced the Treasury's role significantly and would have Brown left with little power. It sounds similar to the arrangements put in place by Harold Wilson and George Brown ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-032.pdf
... in any meaningful sense, since both Nasir and Qadhadafi were overtly anti-communist and were seeking to forge a 'third way' between capitalism and communism - not unlike the radical fascists, albeit in an entirely different social, cultural and political context. What made it possible for these groups to cooperate with each other was their shared hatred of Israel and resentment towards the two 'imperialist' superpowers. This type of cooperation was exemplified by such things as the occasional employment of ex-SS and Wehrmacht men as military instructors, intelligence officers, and/or propagandists by Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Libya; the sporadic material support offered to the PLO by European neo-fascists ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 4 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-01.htm
... often operated out of Manila where he was on very close terms with Philippine President Carlos Garcia, A kingpin of crime, he proved very active in the Caribbean as well. In 1958, for example, he worked with a top Washington public relations man and lobbyist named I. (Isaac) Irving Davidson to broker a weapons shipment to Israel that also involved Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. On 9 September 1961, yet another club with suspected Soviet connections, whose Japanese name translates as 'Tomorrow Is Too Late', also came into play. William Martin apparently had met a Japanese hostess at that club named Noriko Matsutakaya. A CIA source now suggested:'... ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 4 - 08 Sep 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-oswald-and-japan.pdf
... and terrorism during the late 1950s and 60's. See, e.g . Maitres pp.106-17. An excellent general introduction to the BND (and other West German intelligence agencies) is provided by Walde pp.79-105. The best sketch of Mossad's structure and functioning is probably the CIA's own leaked 1979 analysis, Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services in Counterspy (May-June 1982) pp.34-54. Most of the other works on the Israeli intelligence services are 'hagiographic'. The NATO secret service is so secret that even its name is not known, but some of its purported operations in the Italian sphere are sketched by Flamini ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 4 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-11.htm
