The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of dark supernatural forces and their earthly allies’. Much of this was Orthodox Christian propaganda example – an example being that the Antichrist had been born in Israel in 1962. There are many similarities with the thinking of elements of the US Christian Right, except that where the Americans generally saw the Jews as […]

Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton

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[PDF file]: […] money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how New Labour stopped listening to the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] William Blum put this as succinctly as I could in a piece of his, ‘Another Peace Scare’: ‘We have to keep this in mind – America, like Israel, cherishes its enemies. Without enemies, the United States appears to be a nation without moral purpose and direction. The various managers of the National Security State […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] Deacon, both of whom had close connections to the British intelligence services, the anxieties about Harold Wilson seem to have been: 1. He was too close to Israel at a time when the “oil weapon” was in the hands of the Arabs. (88) 2. The Labour Party in power might cut defence spending, and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] seems to me to have been resolved in favour of their being a psy-op,13 a conclusion supported by the fact that they were evacuated from Syria to Israel. * new * Chips with everything14 In a review in Lobster 52 I wrote this about a then new book15 about the threat of RFID chips: […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

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[PDF file]: […] advocate the principles of the UN Charter and sovereign internationalism. An example of this is the action of South Africa in bringing a charge of genocide against Israel to the International Court of Justice over its invasion of, and conduct in, Gaza. There is no question that, as Sakwa argues, the nations of the […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[PDF file]: […] thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] No 10 duties for Tony Blair and New Labour in 2003. One of his early freelance engagements – his first was to speak at a Friends of Israel gathering organised by Lord Levy – was to interview big sporting celebrities for Rupert Murdoch’s Times. One of his most impressive interviewees, he told us on […]

Books on New Labour

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

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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