South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Clovis Meath Baker who spent, ‘. . . 28 years in the Foreign Office during which he filled senior roles dealing with the Middle East, counter-proliferation and Iran, and regularly attended meetings of the National Security Council, the Joint Intelligence Committee, and COBRA. He was seconded to GCHQ as Director of Intelligence Production from […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: Holding pattern Garrick Alder Coincidence theories W ith the jury’s declaration of guilt in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we can now move forward to the vital next step, which is to spend the rest of his sorry lifespan (and maybe longer) listening to lunatics claiming he was totally innocent and it […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] support Trump has among the police across the US. And, once again, as Frum points out, polling has shown that most Americans (76 percent) opposed war with Iran, including ‘63 percent of Republicans’. (p. 171) More generally, he hopes that the Republican Party, that ‘has morphed under Trump into a party of white ethnic […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism Michael Carlson D iscussing the recently released Senate report on American torture, my friend Michael Goldfarb quoted Senator Frank Church, speaking when his Senate committee’s report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel Schorr […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the friends of Israel in Washington DC.1 Hundreds of members of the US Congress afforded Israel’s prime minister repeated standing ovations for assertively undermining their president’s Iran nuclear deal.2 Anyone with a weather eye to the West could forecast what was to descend on the peace-campaigning MP for Islington North. If the US […]

Accessibility Toolbar