Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] system by their own greedy example through rewards and punishments calculated to perpetuate it.’ (p. 204) Notes This was also a feature of the British empire. Scott Newton refers to this happening in Egypt. See his Historical Notes in Lobster 42, p. 27. http://dominionpaper.ca/labour/2004/12/19/confession.html See, for example, Cheryl Payer, The Debt Trap (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974)
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] current dictator. We do not know, at this stage, who is on the list and who is not. If Saudi Arabia is not on the watch list, Egypt is being pressured to get off it by putting in some rules for its presidential elections that show at least a willingness to accept the principle […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] escalating tension between the West and the Soviet bloc. The second factor was the Suez crisis. The failure of the USA to support the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt led to different reactions in London and Paris. The British determined never again to fall out of step with Washington on strategic issues. The French however […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] and special forces.(1) The robust Anglo-American position was not shared by others: there was to be no reemergence of the 1991 anti-Iraq coalition. Within the middle east Egypt dissented and Saudi Arabia made it clear that it would not provide a base for US troops in action against Iraq. The Russians, the French and […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] May 2003 and, most recently, on BBC2, on 4 June 2003. Mitchell’s long, detailed study suggests that the attack was an attempt by the Israelis to get Egypt blamed for it in the hope of dragging the US into the war on the Israeli side. The subject arose on the Website of American neo-con […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] global enterprise. ‘If you take the main Asian markets – Japan, India, China – and their derivatives – Indonesia, Bangla- desh, Pakistan, the Arab countries, East Africa, Egypt, Iran, Morocco – you have 80% of the world’s population.'(18) Much of this audience is aged under 30 and the marketing world believes we have made […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] liberals and fundamentalists alike against a corrupt Saudi government nurtured by America; or, in seeming contradiction, harnessed the pan-Arab (secular) nationalism once championed by President Nasser of Egypt – one of the best PR-men the Middle East has ever produced. America could still have responded in T-shirt terms, and used it as shorthand for […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] on the contemporary domestic British political scene. In the beginning The origins of the contemporary political situation in Cyprus lie not in the island itself but in Egypt in the early fifties. Following the election there in 1950 of the Wafd movement on an anti-British ticket, the new prime minister, Nahas Pasha, opposed the […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] facto intelligence agency with connections throughout the world, Skorzeny made millions as a consultant to countries and organizations whose politics were compatible with his own (e.g. Nasser’s Egypt and the Secret Army Organization in Algiers). Train-robber Buster Edwards and his wife gave Read (and me) a detailed description – names, dates and places – […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] and reserve currency, otherwise known as the sterling area, and confined for the most part to the Commonwealth and Empire (exceptions were Canada, outside the bloc, and Egypt, Iraq, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, inside it). The overall indebtedness reached £3,355 million at the end of the war as Britain’s sterling creditors took IOUs […]
