Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] responsible for three times as many deaths in the United States as were Islamists’ and that: Just as jihadists have used conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq, and Syria to swap tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and solidify transnational networks, so too are WSEs148 using Ukraine as a hub or battlefield laboratory, where […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] ensconced at Harvard, I see no reason to conceal the truth. It is necessary to reveal this so that people can correctly evaluate his political pronouncements on Iraq and Afghanistan, and his motives in making them.’ 6 Wikileaks There is an interesting discussion of what if anything the US state can do to stop […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] for them? Lord Levy’s levy I was a member of the Labour Party for about 20 years, finally quitting when the UK joined the US assault on Iraq. Hence my interest in the ‘anti-semitism– in–Labour’ issue. What is happening would be comic were its consequences not so serious. Though I’m not sure what the […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] responsible for three times as many deaths in the United States as were Islamists’ and that: Just as jihadists have used conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq, and Syria to swap tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and solidify transnational networks, so too are WSEs148 using Ukraine as a hub or battlefield laboratory, where […]

Political life in Britain

Lobster Issue

[…] Labour leader on a local council miles away making a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] early efforts to capitalise on the Pope’s shooting in 1981, through Billygate, the Grenada invasion ‘files’, the October Surprise, the yellowcake uranium invention that contributed to the Iraq War right up to his present-day warmongering Foundation for Defense of Democracy outpourings.38 There’s are lots more UK strands to the Calvi story. For those new […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] ‘The Tree of Liberty Must Be Replenished from Time to Time with the Blood of Commies’ Luke Mogelson,5 a journalist who had covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine, was in Paris when the scale of the opposition to the Covid lockdown in his home state of Michigan prompted his return […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] his rather pally relationship with a known Russian spy. See either man. Chilcot There is so much to be said about Sir John Chilcot’s Inquiry into the Iraq War. It ironically delivered a political Weapon of Mass Destruction that no-one was expecting and it was a shame that press coverage of the report was […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] position of Labour Party leader and prime minister without the inconvenience of a contest for either 17 The easy choice was to go with the US on Iraq and Israel – particularly if you want a subsequent life on the US lecture circuit. 18 Between 2001 and 2005 Blair considered and rejected setting up […]

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