Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] David C. Martin’s 1980 Wilderness of Mirrors. This may not have been the real reason for his ouster. Angleton was also the liaison between the CIA and Israel and during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Nixon and Kissinger tried to ‘tilt’ American foreign policy away from its unconditional support for Israel. To do so in […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] reputation. The man tasked with sorting out the financial mess now that Lord Levy has followed Tony Blair into the sunset is his old Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) colleague Jon Mendelsohn. Announcing the appointment of the business lobbyist in August, Labour said Mendelsohn’s role would be to ‘improve overall organisational efficiency and to […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] simmering pot of racial tension in the inner cities.'(19) He accused opponents of wanting to create a ‘Kosher NF…. weaken our opposition to the bandit state of Israel’, and to turn the ‘NF into a reactionary anti-immigration pressure group’.(20) This missive from Griffin produced a rival Organisers’ Bulletin under the auspices of Wingfield, Brons, […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] thus the true arcana imperii of the British state) closed to historical inquiry. A readers guide to the Balfour Declaration Because anything pertaining to the state of Israel is so obviously controversial, there is a huge body of literature, just on the Balfour Declaration alone. What follows (Section 2) deals mainly with the British […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Germany, Great Britain and the United States. In his 1975 autobiography (published in Holland) Einthoven states that he was lobbying for support in France, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Israel and even Indonesia. Personal links were developed with the Bilderberg group. In the The Black-Pincered Crab by E. Verhoeven and F. Uytterhagen (Holland 1982) the authors […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] albeit in an entirely different social, cultural and political context. What made it possible for these groups to cooperate with each other was their shared hatred of Israel and resentment towards the two ‘imperialist’ superpowers. This type of cooperation was exemplified by such things as the occasional employment of ex-SS and Wehrmacht men as […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] essential struggle against terrorism by attacking Iraq? Would we thus turn the Middle East into a set of friendly democratic capitalist societies ready to make peace with Israel, or into a region of sullen humiliation, a fertile and almost inexhaustible recruiting ground for further terrorists for whom Britain is a main target?'(27) This campaign […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] warning against a Russian-German coalition likely influenced British foreign policy leading up to August 1914. Another piece of the puzzle assembled by Preparata is the mysterious Israel Helphand (also Helfand), otherwise known as Parvus, a well-regarded Marxist author, trusted associate of Trotsky and key mediator between the Kaiser and the Bolsheviks who arranged, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] health insurance. The word ‘cynicism’ seems awfully inadequate. From there, it was only a short step to helping reelect President Calvin Coolidge. Before long, Bernays was helping Israel to lobby the US military and recasting India as a worthy recipient of $1bn-worth of aid. He became the propaganda mastermind in overthrowing Guatemala’s elected government […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] a spook briefing which began, “The terrorist who hi-jacked a 24,000 ton passenger ship is to plan and command a massive revenge attack by the PLO on Israel and her allies.” May 8th 1988, Sunday Express, Massie tells us that “Mrs Thatcher has given the security services two months to crack down on IRA […]