Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] other words, Morgan connected with just about everyone in this story. Morgan first met Roselli in the 1950s through Greenspun, who was convicted of running guns to Israel before launching his career in newspaper publishing.6 2 Starting in late 1966, Morgan worked with Maheu, Greenspun, Roselli and Hoffa to persuade the owners of a […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Ireland: the Kitson Experiment (London: Zed Press, 1983) and subsequently in Lobsters 1, 10, 18 and 19. Important reports Two important reports have appeared recently. The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre: Giving peace a chance? by Tom Mills, David Miller, Tom Griffin and Hilary Aked is a study of BICOM, its creation and […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] and voluntarily opted out of a major space exploration programme. Arrangements like these were so obviously at odds with what any other country would do (think here Israel, India, Pakistan, China and how they acquired nuclear deterrents) that one considers there must be something else at play – a psychological rather than a political, […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] among its members,13 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.14 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Colonel Gaddafi/EU foreign policy and interviewed on Newsnight she wore a noticeable gold broach. Glinting in the camera lights, it looked like the 6 pointed star of Israel doing neither Israel nor the EU any favours.2 4 Note 21 continued: ‘warned’ and traumatised. It ended, in PR terms, in America six months later when […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] for a lawyer’, Chakrabarti refused to define antiSemitism and avoided the distinction between justified criticism of the Israeli government’s policies and the conflation of Jews, Zionists and Israel. Chakrabarti lays out her clear reasons for not defining anti-Semitism on p.7 of her report. On page 12 of the report, contrary to Bower’s account, Chakrabarti […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: Deception in High Places a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade Nicholas Gilby London: Pluto Press, 2015, p/b, £14.00 This is very good: clearly written, massively documented1 and carefully done. Mark Thatcher, for example, some of whose wealth is widely believed to come from BAE’s 1985 Al Yamamah deal with the Saudis, isn’t mentioned. […]