Things Israeli

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] the claims made in Anthony Pearson’s Conspiracy of Silence (see below) that the Israelis had ‘cooked’ – ie intercepted, falsified and rebroadcast – communications between Jordan and Egypt during the 1967 war. Imam appears to be produced free by the Press and Information Department of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 27 Princes Gate, London […]

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Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] denied). Yet other interventions are passed over in silence by Helms just as they are routinely denied in publications of CIA origins or influence: Argentina, Bolivia, Congo, Egypt, France, Greece, Haiti, Italy, Jordan…. Denying and obscuring the CIA’s role in various assassinations, coups, and interventions helps create in the mind of Americans a certain […]

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Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] intelligence officer. His father-in-law was Alexander Gorkin, Chairman of the Soviet Supreme Court. It is also believed that Ivanov played a prominent role in Nasser’s coup in Egypt. According to Nigel West (15) he had been identified by ‘D’ branch as an intelligence officer when he first arrived in London on the 27th March […]

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The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] policy. There is, in sum, considerable denial in the world of American letters, and as they say at A.A., I’m told, ‘denial is not a river in Egypt’. George Plimpton ultimately knew the difference between the light and the darkness, which is why, before he died, he named Barney Rosset of Grove Press, as […]

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Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to be prowest but agnostic in that regard. Nasser was happy to deal with the Soviet bloc and initially reliant on various German (some ex-Nazi) advisors as Egypt became a leading player in the non-aligned group of nations. When the US tired of Nasser’s manoeuvres (July 1956), they withdrew funding for the Aswan Dam […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in world oil prices.’9 (emphasis added) Tracking the events leading up to the Arab oil embargo, Engdahl claims the October 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Syria and Egypt launched a preemptive attack on Israel, had actually been ‘secretly orchestrated by Washington and London’. Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State, allegedly had primary responsibility […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is at . 2 Ploch pp. 9-10. From the late-19th century until the late-20th, Britain controlled/created a vast number of African countries, nearislands, and regions, including: Botswana/Bechuanaland, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho/Basutoland, Malawi/Nyasaland, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Seychelles, Somalia/Somaliland, St. Helena and Dependencies, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania/Tanganyika, Uganda, West Cameroon, Zambia/Northern Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe/Southern Rhodesia. The […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] did not like foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought […]

Going South: why Britain will have a third world economy by 2014 by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the decade. In the medium and longer term the UK economy does not experience the ‘stop-go’ features that characterised the ‘50s and ‘60s. Suez (1956) A fter Egypt nationalises the Suez Canal, Britain and France attack Egypt, with the aim of re-establishing a Suez Canal Zone (that they will control), taking the canal back […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Laden, backed by elements within the Saudi government, did 9/11 and the buildings were demolished by persons unknown for reasons unknown. Denial is not a river in Egypt You may be all ‘Trumped–out’, tired of endless demonstrations of the obvious: the man is an obnoxious dummy.59 I’ve been keeping only half an eye on […]

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