Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] whomever else it finds to support it) will be joining a civil war on the side of (among others) various Jihadist groups. If you find this inexpli cable, Peter Dale Scott, in his usual minutely detailed fashion has assembled all the extant knowledge of previous examples of the US military and intelligence services working […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] probably some truth to the Chinese/North Korean claims. Russian money talking? In 2012 a proposal was launched to connect the British and French electricity grids via a cable through the Channel Tunnel. The company at the centre of this, ElectLink, describes the process thus: ‘Labelled as “European Project of Common Interest” by the European […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] level of disinformation produced against the Sandinistas by the US government, this is difficult to evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] heaviest-ever German bombing raid on London, Hess and Sikorski were both making dangerous flights to Scotland. Victor Cazalet, working in the USA with Sikorski, warned Churchill by cable on 30 April: ‘Sikorski getting agitated about getting home. I can’t help him. The planes are not ready.’ Cazalet cabled again on 1 May: ‘The General […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell and Cable, Brown would have assumed that the Liberal Democrats would never do a deal with the Conservatives. But in late 2007 things changed. Firstly, Brown did not […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] odd. What does raise one’s eyebrows, however, is an entry for May 9 1941, the day before Hess departed, which states: ‘ . . . a cryptic cable came. “Mrs Woolly well now at Berchers” – I tried to understand. It can only mean that Toto Toerring is attached to Hitler and is staying […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] that goes on. I look at the mainstream parties for signs that they grasp any of this. Michael Meacher does, but his voice has no weight.10 Vince Cable does, but mostly stays schtum. Career first, eh Vince? (But he’s a politician: that’s a given.) Occasionally Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary Chukka Umanna shows signs of […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] struck me. A week or so after I wrote in the paragraph above, ‘But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes’, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of Liberal Democrats did just that. Cable went so far as to actually spell out the Text at . The original text is no longer on […]