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Lobster Issue

[…] have been rebutted by me 4 – and by David Denton, in much more detail.5 If this is of interest, read Denton. *new* Labour and and the Israel lobby Following one of those Internet trails, I came across the new(ish) website of the excellent Matt Taibbi 6 and found he had written about a […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] the fog of the Cold War set. (Note also these quantum developments in the speedy turn to global empire: the creation of the National Security State, 1947; Israel, 1948; and the Korean War, 1950.) The crowning legal achievements formed in this new crucible, inter alia, were the U.N. Charter and Geneva Conventions – the […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] wife insisting he attend a medical appointment.33 While Bremer was quickly framing the ‘war on terror’ narrative around Osama bin Laden in a New York studio, former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak was doing the same from a BBC World one in London.34 His ‘the world 27 28 or 29 30 31 or 32 […]

Tittle Tattle

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the whistle on Dr Fox A nything written here about the departed Defence Secretary Liam Fox, his best man and unofficial adviser Adam Werritty, Britain’s ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould and the Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell is likely to be out of date very quickly. Readers needing a little background could start with Jonathan […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 63 and living in Shropshire, thinks the Drummer Girl–derived plan may have originated in the mind of her mentor, the British-born Israeli spymaster David Kimche, known in Israel for secret diplomacy as ‘the man with the suitcase’.9 The Hollywood version of The Little Drummer Girl, with Diane Keaton and Klaus Kinski, was actually showing […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] story about sex and satanism. Forget the Palestinians On 13 August the BBC News carried the story of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations.27 There was much related talk about how good this would be for trade in the Middle East. So presumably about oil, then. Just […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] over eighty would have access to healthcare, terrorists will have attacked major cities because Obama refuses to use force, Iran will have dropped a nuclear bomb on Israel, Christian radio would be shut down’. For Focus Action and its followers, Obama was very much an ‘existential Dinesh D’Souza is something of a phenomenon in […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] its newsletter has reached issue 167.3 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro- Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.4 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, […]

Britannia Unchained, by Kwasi Kwarteng , Elizabeth Truss et al

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] than during previous recessions. Yes: oil, gas, timber, the prairies and proximity to the largest economy in the world might have had something to do with it! Israel also looms large in the authors’ vision of where Britain should be going. It is lauded for the successful hi-tech sector of its economy. Missing, as […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] its newsletter has reached issue 167.3 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro- Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.4 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, […]

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