Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] to be a strange strategy for general election success. Only later did I learn that Ryan’s maintenance of her role as chair of the Labour Friends of Israel was seen by her supporters as a higher priority than a Labour majority, one reportedly supported by party HQ staff machinations.1 So I looked for a […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Colonel Gaddafi/EU foreign policy and interviewed on Newsnight she wore a noticeable gold broach. Glinting in the camera lights, it looked like the 6 pointed star of Israel doing neither Israel nor the EU any favours.2 4 Note 21 continued: ‘warned’ and traumatised. It ended, in PR terms, in America six months later when […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[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, […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] well. In 1958, for example, he worked with a top Washington public relations man and lobbyist named I. (Isaac) Irving Davidson to broker a weapons shipment to Israel that also involved Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. On 9 September 1961, yet another club with suspected Soviet connections, whose Japanese name translates as ‘Tomorrow Is […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Praetorian guard of ambitious student politicians and assorted money-grubbing lobbyists. A bit more complicated than this? Well chuck in devotion to the City, US foreign policy and Israel and there’s little more to say.’ Which is essentially true; but I like the details. I haven’t read the Blair/Mandelson/Jonathan Powell versions of NuLab yet but […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] their use during the 2011 NATO bombings of Libya; Sen. Hilary Clinton has told MSNBC that she would support a nuclear attack on Iran, in defence of Israel. Based on Burr and Kimball’s conclusions, none of these threats had any impact on their recipients in terms of altering their behaviour – not even the […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] as far as they are concerned, he is delivering on the promises he made in return for their support. The Trump administration’s policy regarding the Palestinians and Israel, for example, has nothing whatsoever to do with concern for US national interest, but is all about consolidating his support on the Christian Right, support which […]