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[…] of those MPs is Wes Streeting, who by Friday is likely to be the UK health secretary. Matt revealed how Streeting has received nearly £30,000 from the Israel lobby, and another £175,000 from companies linked to private healthcare.8 So there you go: the new Health Secretary has been bought by the private healthcare lobby. […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] constituency, Phil Wilson MP.5 Mandelson’s long-time associate, vice-chair of his Policy Network and frequent Guardian columnist, Patrick Diamond, is a co-opted board member. Former Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) chairman Stephen Twigg MP is president of Progress and the chair, John Woodcock MP, succeeded Blair loyalist John (now Lord) Hutton into the Barrow and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] did Covert Action and Rupert Murdoch last agree on something? *new* Open conspiracy? I’ve received comments about my use of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’ to describe the Israel lobby’s activities in this country. Are conspiracies not secret by definition? Yes, in a sense they are. Hence the impact of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’. I […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] did Covert Action and Rupert Murdoch last agree on something? *new* Open conspiracy? I’ve received comments about my use of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’ to describe the Israel lobby’s activities in this country. Are conspiracies not secret by definition? Yes, in a sense they are. Hence the impact of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’. I […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that Reid is a consultant to G4S (formerly Group 4 Securicor), the world’s largest security company with a big interest in ‘homeland security’, airport handling and in Israel. (Lord Reid, as well as being a leading advocate of the Iraq invasion and toughness in the ‘war on terror’, is a longstanding member of Labour […]

View from the Bridge 89

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[…] in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Mali or Ethiopia does not seem to energise our campuses. But he also offered this in his conclusions:  And yet Israel succeeds. Why? Because of its values. A belief in courage, enterprise and endeavour. A belief in the worth of every individual’s soul. A robust democracy. A […]

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[…] . . had little to do with fear of WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies. Rather, the Bush administration invaded Iraq for its demonstration effect.’ He quotes Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saying on the evening of 9/11, ‘We need […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] . . had little to do with fear of WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies. Rather, the Bush administration invaded Iraq for its demonstration effect.’ He quotes Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saying on the evening of 9/11, ‘We need […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] . . had little to do with fear of WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies. Rather, the Bush administration invaded Iraq for its demonstration effect.’ He quotes Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saying on the evening of 9/11, ‘We need […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] elements ” says one of Netanyahu’s key advisors from the time, without adducing a whit of evidence. The Citizen Lab reports did prompt a legal petition in Israel to forbid the sales of Pegasus to governments that regularly violated human rights, but the petition was waved away. The Supreme Court in Israel refused to […]

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