Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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 […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Party to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-semitism ‘in full together with all its examples’.16 Those ‘examples’17 are designed to make much of the criticism of Israel anti-semitism by definition. For the history of the long march of this new definition of anti-semitism through the world’s institutions, see the essay by Alison Weir.18 […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] as: Bertil Wedin (aged 80, now living in North Cyprus), Alf Enerström (who died in 2017), Jakob Thedelin (a.k.a. David Fredin, in his 60s and living in Israel) and Victor Gunnarsson (who died 1993 and was a member of the Lyndon La Rouche network via the Swedish-based European Workers The murder, in London, of […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] with Tehran. To achieve this, he ordered the CIA to set up a network of legitimate companies across Europe and the Middle East, in particular Britain and Israel, in order to secretly supply illegal arms to Iran. The main British company, called Allivane International, was set up at Cumbernauld near Glasgow with CIA money […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] seems to me to have been resolved in favour of their being a psy-op,13 a conclusion supported by the fact that they were evacuated from Syria to Israel. Chips with everything14 In a review in Lobster 52 I wrote this about a then new book15 about the threat of RFID chips: ‘RFIDs are radio […]

View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] Thatcher and then with the Americans. ‘Decisive’ – maybe not; but not insignificant. Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead Israel and Dallas, I stated ‘All we know for sure is that Angleton’s department of the CIA was reading Oswald’s mail in America after his return from […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Treasury orthodoxy and sound money delusions (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the US was forced to abandon conversion of dollars to gold in 1971, oil producers in the Middle East coupled their distaste for the US support for Israel with a demand for higher prices for their oil. As events since the war in Ukraine began have shown, increases in energy costs feed through into […]

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