Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[PDF file]: […] suggests. In a 1989 seminar on the IMF incident, Donoughue revealed the following. In the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] candidate. NuLab was born and one of its parents was Israel. This looks like a fairly simple operation: Israel identifies Blair as very pro-Israel and the Israeli embassy in London connects him to the Israeli lobby in Britain – for the future. It wasn’t much of a gamble. In 1994 John Smith had already […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] I was surprised at my lack of reaction. Once upon a time I would have been excited. Now I am merely curious to see what the US embassy in London had to say about our politicians. Am I just getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] was my task to restore it. And I made a step towards the goal. It was dictated by common sense. Of course, I could complain to our embassy about missing license, refer to the law… ‘21 A Kyrgyz court jailed Maksim Bakiyev in his absence in March 2013 to life imprisonment for complicity in […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] for alleged anti-semitism.68 In a previous life Smeeth worked for BICOM, the Londonbased Israel lobby organisation, and was named as a ‘strictly protect’ source in a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.69 Both Aaronovitch and Smeeth have been frequent contributors to the Jewish Chronicle, a paper repeatedly found breaking defamation laws and publishing codes […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] her simple-minded views made a good impression on the gathering may tell us a lot about those present; but she had already been spotted by the US embassy in London and had been given an extensive American tour in 1967 at US expense.1 If the book’s contents are unexceptional, the interesting question is: why […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] were hardly criminal offences, even if carried out in 100 consecutive marginal 58 Summer 2010 constituencies. The role played by the Voice of America and the US Embassy in Rome in influencing the outcome of the 1948 Italian election is a matter of record. Can a similar process be seen at work in the […]