View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Ireland: the Kitson Experiment (London: Zed Press, 1983) and subsequently in Lobsters 1, 10, 18 and 19. Important reports Two important reports have appeared recently. The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre: Giving peace a chance? by Tom Mills, David Miller, Tom Griffin and Hilary Aked is a study of BICOM, its creation and […]

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

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[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 […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the ” Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.38 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the ” Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.38 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the ” Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.25 See this column in Lobster 85 under […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] but became Labour’s communication director for the 2005 general election. In the 2019 one Campbell canvassed for former Liverpool Labour MP and director of Labour Friends of Israel, Luciana Berger, when she stood in London as a Liberal Democrat.4 He has worked for Rupert Murdoch as well as in commercial public relations. He is […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue

[…] bad, enlightened US arrangements good. Fourthly: nowhere in the very extensive discussions in this book about Iraq is any mention made of the significant role played by Israel in persistently lobbying the US (and others) that a pre-emptive war against Saddam Hussein was justified, and in providing ‘intelligence’ of a dubious value. Given the […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the ” Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.6 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the ” Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.6 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly […]

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