Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] compensated by land located in Europe or in the countries that victimized them was misreported, then highly circulated to fuel, instead, the notion of a rabid anti-Semitic Iran. From the height of the network to the lawyers’ boardrooms, and the doctors’ lounges, the pro-Israel supporters of the network aggressively attack as “anti-Semites” any critical […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] (emphasis added) This extract, be it noted, is the work of man who was in charge of the British end of the overthrow of the government of Iran, part of which, according to another of James’ revelations, was the assassination of ‘a key minister by sending him an exploding shaver’. (p. 45) The Tony […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] where the growth of the left, nationalist movements presents the US with its own dilemma or problem : how to confront a geopolitical threat (Venezuelan alliances with Iran, for instance) when the old methods of Reaganite-sponsored terror are no longer available. () Grandin’s book is wide ranging and detailed in its historical accounts of […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] 1973.(147) This is consistent both with the Nixon doctrine and with its corollary that (in the words of the Rand Corp’s Indonesia expert, Guy Pauker) “Brazil, Nigeria, Iran and Indonesia….are expected to assume a dominant position in their respective part of the world…possibly as a result of a tacit devolution of responsibilities by global […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] largely a fabrication by the USA and UK. But to produce the evidence is another. Curtis has produced the evidence – and, as the extract on the Iran coup reproduced above shows, often from official papers. And to my knowledge, no-one else has. Given the pathetic intellectual and social deference paid to the Foreign […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] fact go to jail, but with sentences that were either token, or soon reversed in higher courts. On a higher level, the fall of the Shah in Iran and of Marcos in the Philippines have been followed by new revelations of those dictators’ links to private as well as public forces in the United […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] both a threat and a gift to Arab allies. It can now identify Islamists automatically with terrorism (not completely absurd given the migration of suicidal techniques from Iran to Palestine and thence to Iraq and to Afghanistan, but still a major analytical leap that is not justified by the facts). Carefully placed warnings derived […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] Then the Sunday Telegraph had to apologise to the son of Colonel Gadafi whom it had accused in 1995 of being involved in a conspiracy to flood Iran with counterfeit money. This was a whiz-bang from those ingenious people at SIS, given to Con Coughlin then the Sunday Telegraph’s man in Whitehall, at that […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] and Co. London 1984) This is a pleasant – if somewhat blind – memoire by a US career diplomat who ended up as the US Ambassador to Iran when the Shah fell. There are lots of little bits and pieces in the earlier chapters which may interest students of the history of US involvement […]
