Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the disasters of the Blood Year and after is not explored. We shall return to this question. And much the same goes for the part played by Israel. Similarly, while he quite correctly indicts the corruption of the Maliki government in Iraq, he does not criticise the even more corrupt Karzai government in Afghanistan, […]

Book reviews

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less 192 Summer 2010 attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these largely postmanufacturing islands to pressures and influences – some of them extending beyond his […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] restore Euro-American control over China’s economy.20 Whether relative sanity in the US or the extremism of the Lobby itself (in its day almost as powerful as the Israel lobby today) prevented outright war is a matter of dispute. The psychological impact of ‘losing China’ certainly enhanced the status of the emergent national security state […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] well. In 1958, for example, he worked with a top Washington public relations man and lobbyist named I. (Isaac) Irving Davidson to broker a weapons shipment to Israel that also involved Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. On 9 September 1961, yet another club with suspected Soviet connections, whose Japanese name translates as ‘Tomorrow Is […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as far as they are concerned, he is delivering on the promises he made in return for their support. The Trump administration’s policy regarding the Palestinians and Israel, for example, has nothing whatsoever to do with concern for US national interest, but is all about consolidating his support on the Christian Right, support which […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] their use during the 2011 NATO bombings of Libya; Sen. Hilary Clinton has told MSNBC that she would support a nuclear attack on Iran, in defence of Israel. Based on Burr and Kimball’s conclusions, none of these threats had any impact on their recipients in terms of altering their behaviour – not even the […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] intelligence ships that were used to monitor radio broadcasts of all types in selected locations around the world. These included the USS Liberty, which was attacked by Israel in the eastern Mediterranean in June 1967, and the USS Pueblo, captured off North Korea in 1968. The remainder continued in service until replaced by satellite […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Party to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-semitism ‘in full together with all its examples’.16 Those ‘examples’17 are designed to make much of the criticism of Israel anti-semitism by definition. For the history of the long march of this new definition of anti-semitism through the world’s institutions, see the essay by Alison Weir.18 […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: The text below was the keynote speech at a conference at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) School of Advanced Study of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled ‘The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO’s “Migrated Archives” and “Special Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as: Bertil Wedin (aged 80, now living in North Cyprus), Alf Enerström (who died in 2017), Jakob Thedelin (a.k.a. David Fredin, in his 60s and living in Israel) and Victor Gunnarsson (who died 1993 and was a member of the Lyndon La Rouche network via the Swedish-based European Workers The murder, in London, of […]

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