Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] had replaced the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East after World War One. The British sold weapons to the governments of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Libya and trained their armed forces. At the end of World War Two all these countries apart from Saudi Arabia were members of the Sterling Area, a […]

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] we seem to have emerging as the new US strategy is a determination to disengage itself from direct military involvement regardless of the consequences on the ground. Libya, Syria, Iraq and soon Afghanistan will bear testimony to this strategy. Obama has chosen instead a strategy of supposed precision intervention by special forces and drone […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the Manchester arena bombing but even I knew that the father of the youth who planted the bomb had links to the British state’s covert role in Libya. This was bound to be dodged by the inquiry into the event, if only to avoid embarrassing the Americans with whom the British state (as usual) […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. Just […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Portugal 16%, Germany 18%, Japan 21% and Russia 22%. A study of major and/or western nations shows that only Montenegro, Pakistan, Eire, Swaziland, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Angola, Malawi, Libya and Iraq invest less in their own economies than the UK. The announcements now being made about a UK economic recovery (the definition of which is […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] the Manchester arena bombing but even I knew that the father of the youth who planted the bomb had links to the British state’s covert role in Libya. This was bound to be dodged by the inquiry into the event, if only to avoid embarrassing the Americans with whom the British state (as usual) […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] On His Face Again, and Again, and Again’ at or . 101 Professor David Wrone also critiques Hersh’s JFK book at . 34 state’s covert role in Libya. This was bound to be dodged by the inquiry into the event, if only to avoid embarrassing the Americans with whom the British state (as usual) […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate – again On the American left it is almost universally believed that the claim that Russians tried to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016 is a hoax. As I […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] NATO to Georgia and Ukraine. In 2011, the U.S. tasked the Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Russia. In 2011, NATO bombed Libya in order to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi. In 2014, the U.S. conspired with Ukrainian nationalist forces to overthrow Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. In 2015, the U.S. began […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate – again On the American left it is almost universally believed that the claim that Russians tried to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016 is a hoax. As I […]

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