View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] about to emerge‘.18 Alas, Paul Maddrell, ‘The Triumph of HUMINT: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Services’ Collection of Defense Intelligence, 1951–1989’ 15 Under the subhead Labour and the Israel Lobby at 16 ‘Dark Arts Dispatch: SW1 is a ‘safe space’ for lobbyists’ or 17 or Ridley is the former Viscount Ridley. 18 7 this is […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Matt Ridley, ‘The explosive Paul Maddrell, ‘The Triumph of HUMINT: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Services’ Collection of Defense Intelligence, 1951–1989’ 4 Under the subhead Labour and the Israel Lobby at 5 ‘Dark Arts Dispatch: SW1 is a ‘safe space’ for lobbyists’ or 6 3 truth about the origin of COVID-19 may finally be about […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] proposed they replace their Russian backers – ‘Russian gangsters likely fronting for Putin’, who had loaned the party $13 million – with ‘right-wing Jews and supporters of Israel’. (pp. 162-163) The Russian involvement with the European Far Right is obviously a subject that requires considerable more attention, especially considering that it has, as Wolff […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] officials and politicians but no promises were made; and, most importantly, no agreement was signed. Detailed accounts of these discussions are now available.8 Labour and and the Israel lobby Following one of those Internet trails, I came across the new(ish) website of 7 and or 8 3 the excellent Matt Taibbi 9 and found […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] have been rebutted by me 4 – and, in much more detail, by David Denton.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 […]

View from Bridge copy

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 […]

The Mandelson legacy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] The Guardian before heading to Murdoch at The Times. Another powerful support network around Mandelson developed when new leader Tony Blair accepted the financial backing of wealthy Israel supporters organised by Michael (later Lord) Levy.9 Mandelson already knew many of those supporters having grown up in Hampstead Garden Suburb with a father who worked […]

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 […]

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 […]

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