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[…] apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less 192 Summer 2010 attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these largely postmanufacturing islands to pressures and influences – some of them extending beyond his […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] restore Euro-American control over China’s economy.20 Whether relative sanity in the US or the extremism of the Lobby itself (in its day almost as powerful as the Israel lobby today) prevented outright war is a matter of dispute. The psychological impact of ‘losing China’ certainly enhanced the status of the emergent national security state […]

Londongrad

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] entertain the likes of George Osbourne and Lord Mandelson. Some continued to dabble in the politics of their motherland and others with that ofí other countries, including Israel, with many oligarchs possessing passports from that country. The authors seek to measure the impact of their presence in Britain and list many ennobled Brits – […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] William Blum put this as succinctly as I could in a piece of his, ‘Another Peace Scare’: ‘We have to keep this in mind – America, like Israel, cherishes its enemies. Without enemies, the United States appears to be a nation without moral purpose and direction. The various managers of the National Security State […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] surviving members, added nearly 200,000 new ones and cleared the party’s debts in the process. But his weak leadership proved no match for his PLP critics, the Israel lobby and their allied establishment forces, all backed by a venomous media. Payne records the resultant doorstep hostility to Corbyn in the ‘red wall’ but doesn’t […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] intelligence ships that were used to monitor radio broadcasts of all types in selected locations around the world. These included the USS Liberty, which was attacked by Israel in the eastern Mediterranean in June 1967, and the USS Pueblo, captured off North Korea in 1968. The remainder continued in service until replaced by satellite […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: The text below was the keynote speech at a conference at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) School of Advanced Study of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled ‘The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO’s “Migrated Archives” and “Special Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] they are afraid/unwilling, I have no idea.9 Money well spent? Dropsitenews is carrying a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] just before the publicity campaign began for the third series of the Servant of the People sitcom.135 In September 2018, Kolomoisky moved from Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. Bohdan and Zelensky then made three known joint visits to Tel Aviv in quick succession, during October, November, and December 2018. Neither Bohdan nor Zelensky has […]

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