The attack on the USS Liberty

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] May 2003 and, most recently, on BBC2, on 4 June 2003. Mitchell’s long, detailed study suggests that the attack was an attempt by the Israelis to get Egypt blamed for it in the hope of dragging the US into the war on the Israeli side. The subject arose on the Website of American neo-con […]

PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] global enterprise. ‘If you take the main Asian markets – Japan, India, China – and their derivatives – Indonesia, Bangla- desh, Pakistan, the Arab countries, East Africa, Egypt, Iran, Morocco – you have 80% of the world’s population.'(18) Much of this audience is aged under 30 and the marketing world believes we have made […]

Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] liberals and fundamentalists alike against a corrupt Saudi government nurtured by America; or, in seeming contradiction, harnessed the pan-Arab (secular) nationalism once championed by President Nasser of Egypt – one of the best PR-men the Middle East has ever produced. America could still have responded in T-shirt terms, and used it as shorthand for […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[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 […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] blond hair and blue eyes’ had preceded him as head of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] blond hair and blue eyes’ had preceded him as head of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As […]

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

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[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)

[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 […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] 22 July 2025; WHO, ‘Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza’, 22 August 2025. 4 ‘Another Nakba? Israeli Intel Ministry Proposes Expelling Every Palestinian in Gaza to Egypt’, Democracy Now!, 23 November 2023, . 5 David Gritten, ‘US unveils new plan for Gaza with skyscrapers’, 22 January 2026, . 6 United Nations Human Rights […]

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

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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 […]

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