Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[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 – […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] that the actual response to the attack, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, was always a side-show. 9/11 provided an opportunity for the US, in alliance with Israel and Saudi Arabia, to attempt to establish complete domination over the Middle East. First Iraq would be dealt with to be followed by Syria and Iran, […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] the intent to sabotage computer programs. Perhaps the most famous example of this activity went by the name of Stuxnet, which was developed by the US and Israel to damage Iran’s nuclear program in 2010. In 2022 we are told that Russia has and continues to wage an AM war on Ukraine. On both […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[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 […]