Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] them. As far as US foreign policy went, the overriding concern of the evangelicals, since the downfall of the Soviet Union, has been that the interests of Israel had to be paramount. Trump managed to convince the leaders of the Christian Right that he could and would deliver on this agenda. The adoption of […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] intelligence ships that were used to monitor radio broadcasts of all types in selected locations around the world. These included the USS Liberty, which was attacked by Israel in the eastern Mediterranean in June 1967, and the USS Pueblo, captured off North Korea in 1968. The remainder continued in service until replaced by satellite […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: The text below was the keynote speech at a conference at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) School of Advanced Study of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled ‘The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO’s “Migrated Archives” and “Special Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch […]

Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how New Labour stopped listening to the […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] Deacon, both of whom had close connections to the British intelligence services, the anxieties about Harold Wilson seem to have been: 1. He was too close to Israel at a time when the “oil weapon” was in the hands of the Arabs. (88) 2. The Labour Party in power might cut defence spending, and […]

Londongrad – From Russia with cash

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[…] entertain the likes of George Osbourne and Lord Mandelson. Some continued to dabble in the politics of their motherland and others with that of other countries, including Israel, with many oligarchs possessing passports from that country. The authors seek to measure the impact of their presence in Britain and list many ennobled Brits – […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of dark supernatural forces and their earthly allies’. Much of this was Orthodox Christian propaganda example – an example being that the Antichrist had been born in Israel in 1962. There are many similarities with the thinking of elements of the US Christian Right, except that where the Americans generally saw the Jews as […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[PDF file]: […] thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] seems to me to have been resolved in favour of their being a psy-op,13 a conclusion supported by the fact that they were evacuated from Syria to Israel. * new * Chips with everything14 In a review in Lobster 52 I wrote this about a then new book15 about the threat of RFID chips: […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

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[PDF file]: […] advocate the principles of the UN Charter and sovereign internationalism. An example of this is the action of South Africa in bringing a charge of genocide against Israel to the International Court of Justice over its invasion of, and conduct in, Gaza. There is no question that, as Sakwa argues, the nations of the […]

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