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... nuclear strike force at the Cape to safeguard the area from aggression by Soviet-backed regimes further north. Because of the attitude toward apartheid by the UN, it couldn't be openly armed by the US, the UK or France, the most likely providers of this hardware. The considered view is that South African acquired its nuclear weapons by collaborating with Israel, culminating in a nuclear test near Prince Edward Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, in September 1979.14 President Carter noted in his diary in February 1980: 'We 14 On the Vela Incident (the September 1979 test) see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident>. Apparently news articles at the time speculated on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 26 Aug 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-apocryphylia.pdf
... etc. It might also dispel myths spread by present day politicians – witness Cameron's remarks 'I think there is an enormous amount to be proud of in what the British Empire did and was responsible for – but, of course, there were bad events as well as good.’ People are still dying because of the legacy of empire be they in Israel/Palestine, Kashmir or other far flung places. There has never been a full reckoning of the deleterious impact of empire on the countries that were coloured red on the map. The fight to open up the state and its secrets has been a long one. It has been a constant theme of civil society that government should be ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 03 Jun 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-secrecy-britain.pdf
... contraband (e.g. drugs) and feudal military interests, exemplified by former colonial governor of the Philippines, Douglas MacArthur – began a far-reaching campaign to mobilise the US as a whole to forcibly restore Euro-American control over China's economy.20 Whether relative sanity in the US or the extremism of the Lobby itself (in its day almost as powerful as the Israel lobby today) prevented outright war is a matter of dispute. The psychological impact of 'losing China' certainly enhanced the status of the emergent national security state which then turned the 'loss' into an argument 19 See, inter alia, William Blum, Killing Hope (1995), updated in 2004. 20 The China lobby originated from ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 03 Jun 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-cold-war.pdf
... of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in Nottingham, there is a really interesting piece by Leonard Weiss about the suspected Israeli nuclear test in in the Atlantic in 1979, 'the South Atlantic flash', the title of his essay.4 8 This event was loaded with complications because (a) it was the official policy of the US to deny that Israel had nuclear weapons and (b) the Israelis and 45 Known advance warnings of 9/11 are listed at <http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SMI402A.html> 46 This is expressed very clearly by Richard A. Clarke, who was Bush's chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council at the time. See his Against All ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 28 Apr 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... more important, ships bringing goods to America and Europe from the East, including oil and liquefied natural gas, pass through several points: the Gulf of Aden (Yemen and Somalia), the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt), the Suez Canal (Egypt), and across the Mediterranean (Israel, Palestine (Gaza), Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco). In addition, a network of pipelines links North Africa with Europe. Many US companies operate in North Africa, and thus have a vested interest in securing the region from Nasserite socialists who would otherwise seek to nationalise ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 27 Feb 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-africom-nato-eu.pdf
... Rhine." Almost a quarter of a century before that the MRF was written about in some detail by Roger Faligot in his Britain's Military Strategy in Ireland: the Kitson Experiment (London: Zed Press, 1983) and subsequently in Lobsters 1, 10, 18 and 19. Important reports Two important reports have appeared recently. The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre: Giving peace a chance? by Tom Mills, David Miller, Tom Griffin and Hilary Aked is a study of BICOM, its creation and influence in British politics. Among its chapters are 'The second intifada and the establishment of BICOM', 'BICOM and British Zionism', 'BICOM strategy, elite networks and the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 02 Jan 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-view-bridge.pdf
... if I could have afforded it – it was something like 200 euros a year even then – I do not trust 'blind' writing, which is why you never see Private Eye cited by me in these columns. This is a collection of essays on:* the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians and the slow- motion ethnic cleansing of Israel;* the British state's handling of the domestic Jihadist threat;* the corruption of the ANC government in South Africa;* the creation of the Iraqi 'threat' prior to the invasion of 2003, 'dodgy dossier' et al, and subsequent post-mortems of the event;* an examination of a very small part of Lee Harvey Oswald's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 03 Oct 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-shadows.pdf
... and Bill Casey was appointed as Director of the CIA. Casey, a man who as CIA Director famously said 'Fuck the law', now had to implement his promised arms deals with Tehran. To achieve this, he ordered the CIA to set up a network of legitimate companies across Europe and the Middle East, in particular Britain and Israel, in order to secretly supply illegal arms to Iran. The main British company, called Allivane International, was set up at Cumbernauld near Glasgow with CIA money and government assistance from the Scottish Business Development Fund, registering in 1982 as company number 1621896. The directors were briefed personally by CIA Chief Casey and Ed Meese, Reagan's foreign ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-maggies-secret.pdf
... was intended to crush." And ask, is that really so? Is it really intended to crush it?' The answer, obviously, is 'No, it isn't.’ William Blum put this as succinctly as I could in a piece of his, 'Another Peace Scare': 'We have to keep this in mind – America, like Israel, cherishes its enemies. Without enemies, the United States appears to be a nation without moral purpose and direction. The various managers of the National Security State need enemies to protect their jobs, to justify their swollen budgets, to aggrandize their work, to give themselves a mission, to send truckloads of taxpayer money to the corporations ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 18 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... political impact, when religion is a huge political force. All clerics, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and so on, can and do influence their publics, many are politically active and some at the very top of their societies: e.g. bishops and the Chief Rabbi in Parliament; the Vatican's one time refusal to recognise the state of Israel; the Ayatollahs of Iran; or allegations that Pope Francis may have had a nodding acquaintance with Argentina's Junta. Whatever the truth of the last of these, it will have done Pope Francis' reputation no harm in authoritarian nations such as China where he has Chinese Christians and bishops to protect. In particular, I am astonished by ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 24 Mar 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-pope-francis.pdf
