Beyond The Da Vinci Code

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] current dictator. We do not know, at this stage, who is on the list and who is not. If Saudi Arabia is not on the watch list, Egypt is being pressured to get off it by putting in some rules for its presidential elections that show at least a willingness to accept the principle […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] escalating tension between the West and the Soviet bloc. The second factor was the Suez crisis. The failure of the USA to support the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt led to different reactions in London and Paris. The British determined never again to fall out of step with Washington on strategic issues. The French however […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] and special forces.(1) The robust Anglo-American position was not shared by others: there was to be no reemergence of the 1991 anti-Iraq coalition. Within the middle east Egypt dissented and Saudi Arabia made it clear that it would not provide a base for US troops in action against Iraq. The Russians, the French and […]

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Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to be prowest but agnostic in that regard. Nasser was happy to deal with the Soviet bloc and initially reliant on various German (some ex-Nazi) advisors as Egypt became a leading player in the non-aligned group of nations. When the US tired of Nasser’s manoeuvres (July 1956), they withdrew funding for the Aswan Dam […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] blond hair and blue eyes’ had preceded him as head of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] blond hair and blue eyes’ had preceded him as head of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in world oil prices.’9 (emphasis added) Tracking the events leading up to the Arab oil embargo, Engdahl claims the October 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Syria and Egypt launched a preemptive attack on Israel, had actually been ‘secretly orchestrated by Washington and London’. Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State, allegedly had primary responsibility […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is at . 2 Ploch pp. 9-10. From the late-19th century until the late-20th, Britain controlled/created a vast number of African countries, nearislands, and regions, including: Botswana/Bechuanaland, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho/Basutoland, Malawi/Nyasaland, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Seychelles, Somalia/Somaliland, St. Helena and Dependencies, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania/Tanganyika, Uganda, West Cameroon, Zambia/Northern Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe/Southern Rhodesia. The […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] to Sukarno and advance man for Krupp.90 The consequences of this CIA favour to Nasser and the Nazis were to be widespread and long term. Skorzeny left Egypt after about a year, but he left behind him about 50 former S.S. and Gestapo men, many of them recruited from Argentina and neighbouring countries by […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] did not like foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought […]

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