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 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] intelligence ships that were used to monitor radio broadcasts of all types in selected locations around the world. These included the USS Liberty, which was attacked by Israel in the eastern Mediterranean in June 1967, and the USS Pueblo, captured off North Korea in 1968. The remainder continued in service until replaced by satellite […]
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 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 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: The text below was the keynote speech at a conference at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) School of Advanced Study of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled ‘The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO’s “Migrated Archives” and “Special Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch […]
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 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, […]