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... oil trading done in dollars, a world demand for dollars is created and the US can run trade deficits without it much affecting the dollar's international value. So the Saudis have been, on one hand, the ally of America as its biggest customer for weapons and backer of the dollar, and on the other its enemy as America sustains Israel. Add to which the Saudi state's use of its oil wealth to export its version of Islam world-wide, the CIA's use of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Libya and Syria, and you have the bizarre geopolitical mess detailed by Scott in which the American deep state has funded and run groups regarded by the overworld state ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 28 Feb 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-american-deep-state.pdf
... in 2003 he put the US on track for war against the alleged possessor of huge quantities of the bacteria, Saddam Hussein.4 The posted anthrax contained accompanying notes with similar capitalised text in poor English. The one sent to Brokaw read as follows: 09-11-01 THIS IS NEXT TAKE PENACILIN NEXT DEATH TO AMERICA DEATH TO ISRAEL ALLAH IS GREAT But it quickly became clear that the sophistication of the identified Ames strain of anthrax in the letters meant it could only come from within the military and intelligence apparatus of the US itself. So with al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein off the list of suspects, the FBI began the hunt nearer home. MacQueen recounts the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 16 Feb 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-anthrax-deception.pdf
... Method and Madness The hidden story of Israel's assaults on Gaza Norman G. Finkelstein London and New York: O/R books, 2014, £11/$17, p/b There is little I find more depressing than reading about Israel. Not just the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians (by a state founded for the victims of ethnic cleansing, FFS) but also the denial and hypocrisy that Israel's actions evoke in its supporters. Israel needs an internal enemy. Without one its actions would be undeniably simple ethnic cleansing. With one, and with a huge propaganda effort by its supporters, they become 'self-defence'. Hamas, certainly ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 42 - 19 Dec 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-method-madness.pdf
... between 1956 and 1957. Naughtie maintains his transatlantic interest through active membership of the BAP (see above and Lobsters passim), Evans, who for many years has lived in New York, continues to be protective of US security interests. In a Guardian article in 2012, he described NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as 'narcissistic'. Friends of Israel M edia Society joint host James Harding was soon joined in the upper reaches of the BBC as 'director of strategy and digital' by former Labour Cabinet minister James Purnell. Purnell made his first career move in politics by becoming an Islington councillor, alongside fellow Blairite praetorian guards Stephen Twigg and Tal Michael. On one occasion in the 1990s ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 72 - 20 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-tittle-tattle.pdf
... not a word on the British American Project and other well- documented Atlanticist networks. Jones refers to personnel at Policy Exchange, but not its current director, Dean Godson, a former member of the Reagan administration, whose brother and father have also been key figures in US-UK relations. He also steers clear of the pro-Israel lobby which, to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now Lord) Kinnock and Labour without mentioning Robert Maxwell and of New Labour without reference to Michael (now Lord) Levy and Jon (now Lord) Mendelsohn is a serious ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 14 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-establishment.pdf
... 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>. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 26 Aug 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-apocryphylia.pdf
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 28 Apr 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... victory counterfactual. True to the minimal re-write rule, he allows 9-11 to still take place. But leaving aside the probability of a far closer Gore focus on al Qaeda – almost totally ignored during Bush's first year – a Gore administration would, from day one, have been closely involved in the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine conflict in particular. Gore had been highly active here during the Clinton administration and was acutely aware of how close agreement nearly came in 1999-2000. Gore's links with the region, and a – by no means inconceivable – positive response to Iranian overtures after 9-11 would have yielded a far wider spectrum of leverage ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 16 Mar 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-iraq-war.pdf
