Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] stupid. Pence celebrates Trump’s great achievements on behalf of the Christian Right. His was ‘the most pro-life administration in history’ (p 209) and he moved the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. For Pence speaking at the Knesset ‘and formally informing the Israeli government of the relocation of the US Embassy was one of […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] new documents were made public, with more to come, settled any debate about whose information was reliable. Emphasise apparent. The caller said something like ‘Ring the American embassy in London for some big news’, not ‘JFK’s going to be killed in Dallas.’ See . 35 36 10 perhaps not – that these confessions have […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] not hidden. Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. *new* ‘Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] deliberately. And then there is this: Whether or not an electoral fraud that brought the stammering Biden into the White House was indeed organized from the U.S. Embassy in Rome. . . a space satellite the Italian arms company, Leonardo into the Dominion voting machines, I will leave aside. (p. 121) For that he […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] to make it more amenable to the US, got under way.4 This took the form of Harold MacMillan having a series of private meetings at the US embassy and Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, publicly promoting the need to address the ‘moral crisis’ facing the nation. Throughout this Eden’s ill-health, with a long-standing […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] overthrown by a revolution. Despite this US support, the populist Islamic revolution got out of US control, with the result that on 4 November 1979 the US Embassy in Tehran was invaded by militant students, taking 52 embassy staff hostage. The Carter administration tried to negotiate their return, but Khomenei was intent on humiliating […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] an old joke on the Left about the US regime: ‘Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?’ The answer: ‘Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.’ In a conversation the son of a Honduran tobacco plantation owner told this author that in the nation’s capital, Tegucigalpa, the three most […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] I discussed this in essay in Lobster 72 at . 14 History occurs in a context not of minutes but years, decades, even centuries. When the US embassy in Iran was seized after the overthrow of the Shah, none of the respectable media explained that the Shah had been installed by the CIA after […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] original form or as photocopies. Then there was the issue of the chronology described in Mitrokhin’s account. According to his version, I had marched into the Soviet embassy in Rabat to offer my services, but that was untrue. Did this assertion appear in the KGB file or in Mitrokhin’s notes, or was it supposition […]