Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] terrorist organisation called the Mujehadin-e Khalq (MEK). Previously financed by Saddam Hussein (and previously described as a terrorist group in Washington) these architects of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London are now financed and backed by the US and Gulf Arab States.15 It is also likely that the MEK are getting logistical support […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

Lobster Issue

[…] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

Lobster Issue

[…] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] by Henry Ford to become the Ford Motor Company’s representative in Europe. He later worked for Lufthansa and in the mid-30s was an attaché at the German Embassy in London. In 1938 he married Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, the second daughter of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, making him a cousin […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

Lobster Issue

[…] by Henry Ford to become the Ford Motor Company’s representative in Europe. He later worked for Lufthansa and in the mid-30s was an attaché at the German Embassy in London. In 1938 he married Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, the second daughter of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, making him a cousin […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] of Trade and Industry. The US government was also paying attention: in 1985 – only two years after Blair became an MP – an official in US embassy in London described him as ‘one of the brightest and most ambitious of recent Labor intake’;6 0 and the next year 59 See Eric Shaw The […]

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