The Party of Business and the Business of Parties

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] historical relic of an early twentieth century stitch-up. Those that didn’t were in a minority, and they probably couldn’t stomach any Labour leader for very long anyway. Blair has probably grasped that nettle somewhat better than did Harold Wilson, whose efforts to keep everybody on board probably damaged his health. Do far cats call […]

America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] as for Britain? Very little mention is made of the UK having any role of influence on either US or Israeli-US policy. The authors positively discount Tony Blair playing any significant part one way or the other in either Middle East events or the Iraqi war. They do state, though, that Israel gets access […]

Letter from America: CIA set for Pentagon buyout?

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] John A. Leide. Our military leaders Colin Powell Given the widespread disgust with conventional politics (where Clinton and Bush begin to look as alike as Major and Blair), there has been much mumbling about the possibility of a ‘third party’ in the US. The media’s chosen standard bearer last time was the extraterrestrial Texas […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] reporting in places like Chechnya left states such as Russia free to write their own account of complex and far-reaching conflicts.’ Scott’s death guarantees it. Doubtless, as Blair met with Putin in the latter’s hunting lodge, 11 October 2002, the Russian President – his menu of demands in return for compliance with America-versus-Iraq in […]

More Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

Book Reviews Gerry Healey: A Revolutionary Life Corinna Lotz and Paul Feldman Lupus Books, PO Box 942, London, SW1V 2AR, £15.00 Ken Livingstone MP was given a large chunk of a page of the Guardian (tabloid section p. 13, September 6, 1994) to write a review of this book. The bit that caught my eye […]

After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] like President Putin’s, do not serve British interests, including moral objectives, any more than Mossad’s do. (The last of these could be the reason why Prime Minister Blair has linked his name to ‘saving’ Africa. Previously it was Palestine.) The ‘benefits’ of torture Meantime, Chief Scarlett is presented to the public as an expert […]

Updates

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] switched from one branch to another after the election was called, and had voted at each, as the computer records showed. Sir Ken was praised by Tony Blair in a video distributed to the union, and was endorsed by Gordon Brown over lunch at an Amicus AEEU conference in Blackpool. Under Sir Ken, lest […]

Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] fabricated WMD claims as the ostensible causus belli. Reality though, returned to haunt the crippled Bush administration with a vengeance. And if Bush and Cheney (and Tony Blair) had remained true to the last in cheerleading Israel’s chaotic reinvasion of Lebanon of August 2006, plans for the most ambitious Israeli pre-emption yet – the […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Below is a list of spooks, both dead and alive, […]

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