The View from the Bridge

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[…] here. I learnt more about this relationship and made some good friends. But the premise was unnerving as I listened to generals talking about the expansion of Israel as if we would all agree that that was necessary. Or Republicans discussing how to keep Japan in its place. So my reservations go back a […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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. […]

Understanding Shadows The Corrupt Use of Intelligence by Michael Quilligan

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Eye cited by me in these columns. This is a collection of essays on: * the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians and the slowmotion ethnic cleansing of Israel; * the British state’s handling of the domestic Jihadist threat; * the corruption of the ANC government in South Africa; * the creation of the Iraqi […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] destroy Jeremy Corbyn has been described in this journal in some detail.44 Both of the articles cited in note 28 concentrated on the the work of the Israel lobby against him. Published in 2022 is another study of the subject which focuses on the campaign against Corbyn by non-Israel lobby forces. In their ‘Anatomy […]

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[…] destroy Jeremy Corbyn has been described in this journal in some detail.44 Both of the articles cited in note 28 concentrated on the the work of the Israel lobby against him. Published in 2022 is another study of the subject which focuses on the campaign against Corbyn by non-Israel lobby forces. In their ‘Anatomy […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

lob65-pope-francis

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[…] and some at the very top of their societies: e.g. bishops and the Chief Rabbi in Parliament; the Vatican’s one time refusal to recognise the state of Israel; the Ayatollahs of Iran; or allegations that Pope Francis may have had a nodding acquaintance with Argentina’s Junta. Whatever the truth of the last of these, […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] like The Institute for Government, has a significant following among Blairite supporters and activists. The existence of Progress as a (comparatively) well resourced pro-free market, pro-US, pro- Israel body within the Labour Party had led some to describe it as a ‘party within a party’ a la Militant and to demand, somewhat theatrically, its […]

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[…] destroy Jeremy Corbyn has been described in this journal in some detail.28 Both of the articles cited in note 28 concentrated on the the work of the Israel lobby against him. Published in 2022 is another study of the subject which focuses on the campaign against Corbyn by non-Israel lobby forces. In their ‘Anatomy […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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 […]

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