The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] 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. Gemstones are […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] goes on: ‘Marxist-Trotskyists like Corbyn imbibed Marx’s sentiment without explicitly acknowledging its anti-Semitism, but the virus influenced Corbyn’s language so that he automatically challenged the right of Israel to exist’. And all the time, ‘the anti-Zionists’ language had become increasingly anti-Semitic’. (pp. 129, 132). Indeed, as far as Corbyn was concerned ‘Jews were automatically […]

Political life in Britain

Lobster Issue

[…] money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how New Labour stopped listening to the […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] Deacon, both of whom had close connections to the British intelligence services, the anxieties about Harold Wilson seem to have been: 1. He was too close to Israel at a time when the “oil weapon” was in the hands of the Arabs.87 2. The Labour Party in power might cut defence spending, and thus, […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the disasters of the Blood Year and after is not explored. We shall return to this question. And much the same goes for the part played by Israel. Similarly, while he quite correctly indicts the corruption of the Maliki government in Iraq, he does not criticise the even more corrupt Karzai government in Afghanistan, […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Labour Party leader and prime minister without the inconvenience of a contest for either 17 The easy choice was to go with the US on Iraq and Israel – particularly if you want a subsequent life on the US lecture circuit. 18 Between 2001 and 2005 Blair considered and rejected setting up a separate […]

View from 93

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[…] didn’t prepare because they thought they would lose the election, as 4 5 3 Labour Together member Neal Lawson told us.6 McSweeney’s organisation, largely funded by pro- Israel money, wanted Wes Streeting as leader. They assumed Streeting would succeed Starmer after he led Labour to election defeat. Which illustrates once again how far ahead […]

Book reviews

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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 […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Godson, a former member of the Reagan administration, whose brother and father have also been key figures in US-UK relations. He also steers clear of the pro- Israel lobby which, to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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 […]

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