Israel, the lobby and its critics

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]

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[…] Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.’7 I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has been excised by […]

You get the report you pay for

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] brother Michael is a board member and Chief Energy Advisor. Also on the team as a board member is Vicky Price, former wife of Chris Huhne, former Liberal Democrat MP and energy and climate change Cabinet Minister. () In news reports of McWilliams’ crack cocaine ‘fall from grace’ he is often referred to as […]

Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast fraternity. But readers looking for insight into the US/UK relationship from someone so well positioned will be disappointed, as they will be in seeking […]

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[…] C. Lavin.24 Morrow quotes Lavin: notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] supporting such a government. The following year (28 March 2001), he attended the launch of Adair Turner’s new book, Just Capitalism, at the LSE where ‘all the liberal New Labour crowd who like capitalism just fine and believe it will deliver social justice with just minor tweaks’ are present. He writes that there was […]

Shirley Williams

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[…] Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast fraternity. But readers looking for insight into the US/UK relationship from someone so well positioned will be disappointed, as they will be in seeking […]

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