Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[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. […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] Brown and Balls apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these largely post-manufacturing islands to pressures and influences – some of them extending beyond his […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[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 […]