Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] commander in the Middle East, was a family friend – to secure a transfer to 52 Commando, going on to serve in Abyssinia. The unit returned to Egypt where they were tasked with guarding the docks in Alexandria and regularly came into conflict with offduty Australian soldiers. Smiley, in his biographer’s words, ‘condoned’ the […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] expansion into Africa, a view that Mosley and Yockey both shared. Yet by the mid-1950s Yockey began identifying with anti-colonial movements; he even spent time in Nasser’s Egypt. When the United See Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1879-1928 (New York: Penguin Press, 2014), and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 (New York: Penguin Press, […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] bottom of page 5. 16 elites refused to collaborate with London and there was resistance (as in China over the opium trade between the 1830s and 1850s, Egypt in 1882 and in West Africa and South Africa during the 1880s and 1890s), then the British would use military power. This is how the UK […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG Nick Must In his book Manufacturing Terrorism,1 T. J. Coles mentions that ex-MI5 officer David Shayler has recently claimed that Ramadan Abedi (the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi) was the MI6 asset who had previous been identified solely with the cypher ‘Tunworth’. Shayler first mentioned Tunworth […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] writes: ‘The British had, for several decades before 1917, been a preeminent colonial power in the Near East, demonstrated most vividly by their invasion and occupation of Egypt in 1882. From the 1890s onwards dramatic changes began to take place in the nature of imperialism. Whilst colonisation and colonialism would continue to exist, imperialism […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the British spooks’ role in that ghastly decade (if we’re not all under water by then). This is very largely a history of failure. Operations in Albania, Egypt and Syria (1958) were ‘obvious failures’ and – rather oddly, given how much attention he gives it – ‘covert action in the colonies amounted to little’. […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] diplomatic belligerence and all. I had time to pause and reflect on what surrounds Israel. Our friends the Wahhabi? Or perhaps that old friend of the west, Egypt, with its lately installed dictator? Or the crumbling waywardness of countries previously treated as vassal oil reservoirs with little or no legitimate government – and, more […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (known as the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) in Somalia was considered a great success. The British made use of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Egypt, Russia and the Sudan, and even considered making use of it against any revolutionary outbreaks in Britain itself. It was not just deployed against insurgents, but […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] American air assault – with small-scale nuclear weapons – on Egyptian forces. (Operation Northwoods writ large.) US planes were in the air on their way to bomb Egypt before being recalled. This is not new information. Former Sunday Times journalist Peter Hounam presented it first in his book Operation Cyanide;8 but that was not […]
