Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and voluntarily opted out of a major space exploration programme. Arrangements like these were so obviously at odds with what any other country would do (think here Israel, India, Pakistan, China and how they acquired nuclear deterrents) that one considers there must be something else at play – a psychological rather than a political, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] among its members,9 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.1 0 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,1 1 the Conservative […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] among its members,13 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.14 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: […] and Hollick. In 2021 Labour Together was fined £14,000 for not properly declaring ‘around £700,000 in donations’ (p. 249) – a substantial part which came from the Israel lobby in Britain.8 Although Baldwin is quite open about the general part played by Labour Together, he omits the questionable funding issue. Mr. McSweeney is now […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] and Hollick. In 2021 Labour Together was fined £14,000 for not properly declaring ‘around £700,000 in donations’ (p. 249) – a substantial part which came from the Israel lobby in Britain.8 Although Baldwin is quite open about the general part played by Labour Together, he omits the questionable funding issue. Mr. McSweeney is now […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As the tide turned against the Soviet Union, Sadat and his vice-president Hosni Mubarak […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] for a lawyer’, Chakrabarti refused to define antiSemitism and avoided the distinction between justified criticism of the Israeli government’s policies and the conflation of Jews, Zionists and Israel. Chakrabarti lays out her clear reasons for not defining anti-Semitism on p.7 of her report. On page 12 of the report, contrary to Bower’s account, Chakrabarti […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] opium during the Vietnam war, has returned to subject of opium and the US state in his ‘Calling Afghanistan what it is: a drug war’.1 The pro- Israel lobby in Britain In November 2009 Channel 4’s Dispatches series broadcast ‘Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby’, a striking event in this country’s political (and television) history. The […]

Chemtrails

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: Chemtrails T. J. COLES CHEMTRAILS, HAARP, and the “Full Spectrum Dominance” of Planet Earth Elana Freeland Feral House: Port Townsend, WA, 2014, $21.95 ISBN: 978-1-936239-93-1 T here’s not enough information about weather warfare. Most books on the subject are either obscure academic histories or off-the-wall conspiracy theories. For example: the late Jerry E. Smith’s Weather […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: Deception in High Places a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade Nicholas Gilby London: Pluto Press, 2015, p/b, £14.00 This is very good: clearly written, massively documented1 and carefully done. Mark Thatcher, for example, some of whose wealth is widely believed to come from BAE’s 1985 Al Yamamah deal with the Saudis, isn’t mentioned. […]

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