View from Bridge

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[…] they are afraid/unwilling, I have no idea.9 Money well spent? Dropsitenews is carrying a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] foremost a British term (derived from cricket). 10 A short but useful academic overview has since been published – see ‘Falafel and Apple Pie’, Dahlia Scheindlin and Israel WaismelManor (in Routledge Handbook of Political Management, 2009) Page 35 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 1990, where their novelist candidate Mario Vargas Llosa ignored their advice and […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] just before the publicity campaign began for the third series of the Servant of the People sitcom.135 In September 2018, Kolomoisky moved from Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. Bohdan and Zelensky then made three known joint visits to Tel Aviv in quick succession, during October, November, and December 2018. Neither Bohdan nor Zelensky has […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] goes on: ‘Marxist-Trotskyists like Corbyn imbibed Marx’s sentiment without explicitly acknowledging its anti-Semitism, but the virus influenced Corbyn’s language so that he automatically challenged the right of Israel to exist’. And all the time, ‘the anti-Zionists’ language had become increasingly anti-Semitic’. (pp. 129, 132). Indeed, as far as Corbyn was concerned ‘Jews were automatically […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] broadcasting. A core part of his creed was that the white citizens of the US, UK and British Commonwealth were the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel and therefore entitled, according to Biblical prophesy, to inherit the Earth. Armstrong and the Radio Church of God also took the view that the coming Armageddon […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] just before the publicity campaign began for the third series of the Servant of the People sitcom.135 In September 2018, Kolomoisky moved from Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. Bohdan and Zelensky then made three known joint visits to Tel Aviv in quick succession, during October, November, and December 2018. Neither Bohdan nor Zelensky has […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: ‘This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq….. Now, there are some who like to […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the disasters of the Blood Year and after is not explored. We shall return to this question. And much the same goes for the part played by Israel. Similarly, while he quite correctly indicts the corruption of the Maliki government in Iraq, he does not criticise the even more corrupt Karzai government in Afghanistan, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] American arms companies, who are driving this, will have less need of the ‘terrorist threat’ their political fronts in America cobbled together in the early 1980s with Israel to justify their huge share of the US tax take; and just maybe the American presence in the Middle East and Africa will diminish. Gemstones are […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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