The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

NuLab and Uncle Sam In the last issue I discussed the research by Giles Scott-Smith on the US State Department’s funding of a big freebie trip to the US for Mrs Thatcher in 1967, after the US embassy in London had spotted her as a possible future prime minister. Scott-Smith has more information on the […]

The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] operating environment. To make money, ex-spooks require a high-risk one. As this market dribbles away, they are doing all they can to develop new income streams. 9 Israel is already a quasi member of the EU, participating, for example, in scientific research projects 10 This is where ex-spook public affairs consultancies, including those which […]

Twilight in the desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] nationalisation by the Saudis. (p. 50) Simmons explains that King Faisal’s October 1973 oil embargo was brought on as a direct response to America’s decision to arm Israel and clears up the mistaken but commonly held belief that this embargo raised prices. The fourfold to six-fold oil price hike was, in fact, due to […]

More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] the Republican Party Carswell would be as a giant among pigmies. An undeniable upsurge of anti-Semitism in Europe and America is underway. Yet we have a right-wing Israel, an “ally” of the “West” – i.e. the Americans. Life is complicated still further by the existence of anti-Zionism, and the claims by some Jews that […]

Why are we with Uncle Sam?

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] that in 1973 Prime Minister Edward Heath refused to allow the Americans to use British bases in Cyprus for intelligence gathering during the Yom Kippur war between Israel and some of its Arab neighbours; and that this resulted in a temporary halt in the US signals intelligence flow to the UK. Heath was defeated […]

Oswald Mosley – Fascist and Sex Machine

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] himself first. But there was not enough water to allow him to do this; we seemed to be proceeding across the English Channel like the children of Israel through the Red Sea. Eventually my father flopped down in a foot or two of water; we all flopped down; then he laughed; we all laughed.'(2) […]

The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] it crops up again, below.) Wilson “received approximately £60,000 from East German sources for campaign funds”. Wilson “has a friend in the Soviet government” Wilson is “pro Israel” Wilson “bowed to the pressure (of the Communist Party members who are MPs) by removing the embargo on CP membership for members of the Labour Party.” […]

Sex and Rockets: the occult world of Jack Parsons

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] on classified investigations for US Naval Ordnance. In June 1952 he died in an explosion at his home laboratory. He was about to go and work in Israel. He claimed just before his death to have invented powerful new explosives. Given the statements elsewhere about Parsons’ liking for drugs and preference for working at […]

An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] here on earth, for example – social reform, environmental protection – because that would take the edge off the Tribulation, and so slow things down. Peace between Israel and Palestine – ditto. Internationalism is just a cunning disguise for the reign of the Prince of Darkness. American imperialism is the agency of God’s salvation. […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] 1970s MET FNLA REPS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. MEMBER PRIVATE SPOOKS GROUP ‘THE PINAY CIRCLE’. CLOSE TO MI5\MI6 ‘ROMANTIC VICTORIAN-STYLE IMPERIAL RIGHT-WING STRATEGIST PRO SOUTH AFRICA EEC ISRAEL ANTI US UN ARAB REVOLUTION CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (BROTHER HANGED) PROGRESSIVE ON LABOUR RELATIONS. WIFE CATHERINE DAUGHTER OF HAROLD MACMILLAN’ DIR SOUTH AFRICAN MINING COMPANIES: VAAL REEFS […]

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