The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] number of times a nation has been in breach of UN 1 resolutions. In this context, Israel finds itself alongside the likes of North Korea, Russia and Iran, all of which may reasonably be described as rogue states.2 Loewenstein’s book is clearly an indictment – the charge being that Israel unscrupulously peddles military hardware […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] at best. We are told that Saddam Hussein ‘ rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had past ‘issues’, not least in the case of David Mills (the late Tessa Jowell’s ex-husband) and his ‘attempts to clinch a $200 million aircraft deal’ with Iran, which ‘was in danger of falling foul of US sanctions’.19 Taylor, Ann Former Chief Whip Taylor’s register entry tells us that she is a ‘Member of […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, China, Iran, or North Korea, but “‘domestic extremists’ in general—and far-right white supremacist groups in particular.” The new information regulators failed to win over vaccine skeptics, convince MAGA […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hers as ‘waterboarding is how we’d baptise terrorists’ (p. 178), McCain on occasion sang from the same hymn sheet, indeed actually sang ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran’ to the tune of the Beach Boys ‘Barbara Ann’ to appreciative audiences. McCain certainly repudiated claims that Obama was a Muslim, but his campaign, courtesy of […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

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[…] the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, China, Iran, or North Korea, but “‘domestic extremists’ in general—and far-right white supremacist groups in particular.” The new information regulators failed to win over vaccine skeptics, convince MAGA […]

Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51: An Uneasy Relationship? by Daniel W B Lomas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] covert operation aimed at Albania is a case in point. Even more remarkable is the fact that when the Labour government decided not to intervene militarily in Iran after the nationalisation of the British- owned oil industry by the nationalist government (because of shortage of troops and US pressure), they instead authorised a covert […]

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[…] the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, China, Iran, or North Korea, but “‘domestic extremists’ in general—and far-right white supremacist groups in particular.” The new information regulators failed to win over vaccine skeptics, convince MAGA […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is an Israeli fabrication that the Obama administration resisted but that the Trump administration has wholeheartedly embraced. This ‘Hisbollah threat’ is also part of the demonization of Iran, that is once against Israeli-inspired – with the enthusiastic assistance of Israel’s covert allies, the Saudis. Instead of exploring any of this, what Woodward gives us […]

Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a time when the Trump administration is threatening an attack on North Korea, which would almost certainly involve the use of nuclear weapons, and an attack on Iran as well, the future looks like business as usual. We shall see. Given its subject matter, this is inevitably an interesting history and Hippler does have […]

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