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 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] it wasn’t worth trying at all. The idea of slowly developing your own deterrent, as and when funds are available (the approach followed by France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran(?)) doesn’t appear to have been entertained, with a radical short-termism preferred instead. countries, and, the death penalty is no longer in […]
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 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: Scott Newton Nairn and Marx Tom Nairn, who died in January, was one of the most powerful and perceptive political theorists of our time. He was a Marxian whose writings often appeared in journals such as New Left Review and The London Review of Books, as well as in books such as The Break-Up of […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] with similar capitalised text in poor English. The one sent to Brokaw read as follows: 09-11-01 THIS IS NEXT TAKE PENACILIN NEXT DEATH TO AMERICA DEATH TO ISRAEL ALLAH IS GREAT But it quickly became clear that the sophistication of the identified Ames strain of anthrax in the letters meant it could only come […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] during the Corbyn years. There are some who merely changed tack: Sir Trevor Chinn, a leading light in the Jewish community and backer of Labour Friends of Israel, for example. In 2020 he was a big funder of Starmer’s leadership campaign, as well as backing other party luminaries like Tom Watson, who relentlessly sought […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] on one hand, the ally of America as its biggest customer for weapons and backer of the dollar, and on the other its enemy as America sustains Israel. Add to which the Saudi state’s use of its oil wealth to export its version of Islam world-wide, the CIA’s use of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan, […]