Newsinger The Rule of the Tech Lords

Lobster Issue

[…] in 2020. (pp. 2, 150, 161, 162, 167, 169) What seems to have been decisive in pushing Karp to the hard right was the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. Palantir had already let Mossad have its tech at a generous discount, but after the Hamas attack Karp made support for Israel […]

View from Lob 73

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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: […]

Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity by Thomas Gift

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] that the war would be short-lived, the Iranian regime brought to heel by an overwhelming bombardment, with few US casualties. Almost always overlooked is the fact that Israel has a covert ally in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi regime has been Israel’s accomplice for many years and without doubt its influence was brought to bear […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] lead them across the straits to restored power on the mainland. In the 1950s the so-called China Lobby enjoyed a status not unlike that enjoyed by the Israel lobby today. It is probably no accident that both KMT-ruled Formosa and Israel are substantial hubs for the whole range of offshore illicit traffic, whether drugs, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[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

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

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