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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 2017, when the Trump administration radically reduced the State Department’s presence on the Caribbean island and the CIA withdrew all of its personnel from the reopened U.S. Embassy there. But few in the intelligence community believed the Cubans were behind the phenomenon. Given Moscow’s outsize influence on the Communist-run nation, the prevailing theory was […]

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 […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] invaluable commentator on the machinations of the state. On 28 May he wrote a very important piece, ‘The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists’.60 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]

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