Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Liberty incident, one strand has it that US president Johnson authorised the Israeli attack on the Liberty, seeking to create a pretext for a US attack on Egypt. In his 2003 book, Operation Cyanide, Peter Hounam, sometime head of the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ team, argues that a nuclear attack was planned and was within […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] without the Shah. (Miller and Mylroie, 1990) To this end, both Britain and the US endorsed the formation of the Arab Co-operation Council (linking Iraq to Jordan, Egypt and Yemen) despite the fact that this was very obviously an arms procurement conduit for weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, MI6 colluded in the provision of […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] media to advance positive changes for civil society. This included learning how to switch over Sim cards from mobiles and protect online identities. One attendee was from Egypt: he said he and his fellow activists planned to overthrow President Mubarak through the use of social media.’ 11 Local outreach has become necessary because SIS […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Who let the dogs out? Alpha Dogs How political spin became a global business James Harding London: Atlantic Books, 2008, £9.99 Reviewed by ‘Consultant’ In early 2006, a Nepali citizen was kidnapped by Maoist rebels. He had been carrying out opinion surveys on behalf of (pollster) Stan Greenberg’s US firm, to find […]