Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] from an offshore radio station owned by a Swiss-based electronics company later shown to have had a connection to the Lockerbie bombing.6 Following the Suez parallel, if Clinton had won the US Presidency in November 2016, is it possible the UK might have dumped Brexit by now? The ‘centre’ emboldened by numerous US telephone […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] is still supposed to be a secret1 2). This influence has continued: after the Iraq war Labour paid £530,372 to Mark Penn, a Washington-based adviser to Hillary Clinton. During the run-up to the 2005 election Penn ran secret polling of British voters from his company’s call centre in Denver while he stayed at the […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] involved in passing money to the alleged hijackers.4 7 Foreign policy and democracy The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) had in 2000 pressed upon President Clinton its ideas for ‘Rebuilding America’s Defences’.4 8 Some of its leading figures had recommended Israel under Binyamin Netanyahu to make a ‘Clean Break’ which required the […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Government should consider pensioning off the whole of MI6 and hiring Patrick Cockburn instead’. The second is a quote from one of Sydney Blumenthal’s e-mails to Hilary Clinton when she was Secretary of State, that Cockburn ‘was almost always correct on Iraq’. Both quotes point to another of Cockburn’s themes, which is implicit, rather […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] has employed an Israeli ex-military intelligence official as Labour’s ‘social listening and media organising manager’. See or . 5 Marc Rich was famously pardoned by President Bill Clinton in January 2001, on his final day in the White House. Rich’s Wikipedia entry tells some of the story of Duncan’s former employer . 6 A […]