Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] No 10 duties for Tony Blair and New Labour in 2003. One of his early freelance engagements – his first was to speak at a Friends of Israel gathering organised by Lord Levy – was to interview big sporting celebrities for Rupert Murdoch’s Times. One of his most impressive interviewees, he told us on […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 4 The car bomb assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was the fourth such murder of a nuclear scientist in Iran since 2010. Initially the Iranian authorities blamed Israel for the attack after the former Israeli military spokesman Brigadier Yuav Mordechi revelled in the murder. But it’s difficult to see how MOSSAD agents could remain […]

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

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE
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[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) FREE

[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 […]

The Centre Must Hold: Why centrism is the answer to extremism and polarisation edited by Yair Zivan

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the Palestinian Authority; but whilst claiming he was in favour of a two-state solution, he also maintained that illegal Israeli West Bank settlements should be permanent, and Israel should have total control of Jerusalem. Many contributors to this book identify Centrism with liberty, democracy and justice. Yet none of them finds time to show […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE
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[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] American arms companies, who are driving this, will have less need of the ‘terrorist threat’ their political fronts in America cobbled together in the early 1980s with Israel to justify their huge share of the US tax take; and just maybe the American presence in the Middle East and Africa will diminish. Bin Laden’s […]

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