Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] territory of Ukraine, radicalisation of the population, and triggering of infight . American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks used to organise protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.163 The day after Tsaryov’s parliamentary revelations, the Euromaidan began.164 The prime mover was Mustafa Nayem, a former People’s Deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Libyan government. Renamed Radio Jamharia, it anchored off Tobruk and broadcast ‘Libya International in English’, supporting and endorsing the Gaddafi regime, much of it aimed at neighbouring Egypt. This continued until 1984 when the ship was decommissioned, stripped of its fittings and sunk as a target for bombing practice by the Libyan air force. […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to provide intelligence to help in a cyber campaign against Iran’s nuclear program. It also infected computers in the West Bank, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Flame was capable of stealing data from infected computers, logging keystrokes, activating computer microphones to record conversations, and taking screenshots. What made it so effective was […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Belgrade. He didn’t fly out until the 16 December, and then by a convoluted route that took in Lisbon, the Canary Islands, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the Sudan, Egypt and Greece. He is away until 20 February 1941. This section of the book, covering some 50 pages, is a brilliantly written piece of travel writing. […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] all part of Biblical prophecy. In February 1983, Falwell told a Texas newspaper that he favoured Israel ‘taking portions of present day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan and all of Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait’.32 Falwell’s Moral Majority was disbanded in 1989, partly as a result of evangelical disappointment with Reagan’s administration which […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and media pressure. He also accepts the ‘declinist’ context in which everything In 2017 Trump called Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Japan, India, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Ireland and Egypt prior to contacting Theresa May. In 2021 Biden called Canada and Mexico prior to speaking with Boris Johnson. 4 Massively exaggerated in the sense that the […]

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