Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Carlson Tonight’. (p. 127) Even more astonishing, although Meadows does not recount this episode, on another occasion, in June 2019, when Trump was considering air strikes against Iran, the President actually phoned Carlson to ask his advice on whether to go ahead and decided to follow the Fox News correspondent’s urging not to authorise […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had he continued on this path, one might expect his name to have In Raphael BenLevi, ‘How Competing Schools of Grand Strategy Shape America’s Nonproliferation Policy Toward Iran’, in Texas National Security Review, Summer 2022. or 14 15 16 or 17 5 cropped up as a radical Latin American specialist or even a full-time […]

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[…] very top of their societies: e.g. bishops and the Chief Rabbi in Parliament; the Vatican’s one time refusal to recognise the state of Israel; the Ayatollahs of Iran; or allegations that Pope Francis may have had a nodding acquaintance with Argentina’s Junta. Whatever the truth of the last of these, it will have done […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

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[PDF file]: […] the two states. Now its objectives are more ambitious, including the construction of a ‘new political and economic order’. Its membership has grown to include India, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Afghanistan, Belarus and Mongolia have observer status, and ‘dialogue partners’ include Turkey (an arrangement which may well have assisted in Ankara’s […]

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[…] 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, […]

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[…] 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, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] their subservience to America) – to try and get the legislation through.2 4 Briefly 22 James Kirkup, ‘Britain had to plead with US to take part in Iran flotilla’, Daily Telegraph 06 Feb 2012. 23 Alan Travis, ‘Thatcher went behind cabinet’s back with Trident purchase’ The Guardian, 30 December 2011. 24 See Martin Beckford, […]

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[…] 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, […]

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[…] 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, […]

Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 92 (2026) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism.1 He has also published books on the Middle East and Islam: A Dangerous Delusion: Why the West is Wrong about Nuclear Iran in 2013 and The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam in 2022. And a number of books on cricket. All of these […]

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