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Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

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[PDF file]: […] a Rayner) ascendency. Maguire and Pogrund follow the progress of ‘Project Ex’ – not even Starmer was aware of it until late on – comprising arch pro- Israel agitator Luke Akehurst; the veteran party insider (of Midlands vintage) Labour peer Roy Kennedy (whose wife also made it to the Lords); and Matt Pound, a […]

Peer group pressure

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[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I learnt […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the affair I saw was by Daniel Margrain, who concluded: ‘Politically, the purpose of the misuse of antisemitism by Zionists is to quash all legitimate criticisms of Israel, its oppression of the Palestinian people and, by extension, Muslim/Arab nationalist aspirations more generally. The media attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and others are political […]

Apocryphylia

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[PDF file]: […] the US, the UK or France, the most likely providers of this hardware. The considered view is that South African acquired its nuclear weapons by collaborating with Israel, culminating in a nuclear test near Prince Edward Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, in September 1979.14 President Carter noted in his diary in February 1980: […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] and may have also been a CIA informant. 4 Life after Tony An article in the Jewish Chronicle of 13 January reported that the Labour Friends of Israel is going to rebrand itself ‘as a membership organisation to argue actively for the two-state solution and develop the “progressive case” for Israel.’ Its new director, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Atlantic flash’, the title of his essay.4 8 This event was loaded with complications because (a) it was the official policy of the US to deny that Israel had nuclear weapons and (b) the Israelis and 45 Known advance warnings of 9/11 are listed at 46 This is expressed very clearly by Richard A. […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] documents, raw intelligence data and nontraditional sources such as tribal leaders’. And what does this intelligence paragon tell Jared Kushner? That Hezbollah was ‘an existential threat’ to Israel, and, on top of that, maintained a dangerous terrorist network ‘worldwide’. They gave Trump ‘a Reader’s Digest version of the Hezbollah briefing’ (pp. 108-110). This is […]

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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 the bridge

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[…] available. In his new Inside The League, Hughes has written a detailed history of the organisation, its activities, its personnel and its decline and fall.12 *new* The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 years ago in issue 49 by Tom […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] other words, Morgan connected with just about everyone in this story. Morgan first met Roselli in the 1950s through Greenspun, who was convicted of running guns to Israel before launching his career in newspaper publishing.6 2 Starting in late 1966, Morgan worked with Maheu, Greenspun, Roselli and Hoffa to persuade the owners of a […]