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[…] 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’.41 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] On September 21, 1976, a sophisticated bomb killed former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and an American friend while they were driving to work down Washington’s fashionable Embassy Row. Two weeks later, on October 6, a Cuban commercial airliner exploded in mid-air over the Caribbean, killing all 73 passengers on board. Confessions in the […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[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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[…] 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’.23 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] famously not only about voting). Page 37 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 mean there was no US interference (which would probably have to be run through the British embassy, as the US have no official base in Tehran).2 0 Consider two less-discussed events around the June 12 election: first, there has been much talk about […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] day’s proceedings. See or . 5 Maule Ramsay was interned on 23 May after evidence emerged of him having a close relationship with Tyler Kent, a US embassy employee who was obtaining confidential US and UK communications. After Ramsay’s arrest, Lord Marley obliquely referred to him in the House of Lords as the Nazi […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Ms. Ratner, she made a stop in London during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Mr. Assange for approximately six hours in the Ecuadorean embassy. Ms. Ratner said Mr. Assange told her that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Ms. Ratner said […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] to 1979 and who handled the money from Moscow — up to £100,000 a year — from 1958 to 1979. Falber met the man from the Soviet Embassy and got bags of money which he hid in the loft of his house until the money was laundered through the party’s accounts. This was the […]

WEAPONISING ANTI-SEMITISM: How The Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Looked at another way, the author has written an unprecedented exposé of a successful political operation in Britain. For an operation it was, directed by the Israeli embassy in London. The British political system and its attendant media have allowed the Israeli state to restructure one of its two main political parties. On the […]

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] she employs is to make a joke of it. When Tony Blair visited the country in May 2007, she was invited to meet him at the British Embassy. The Embassy was ‘rocketed….minutes before Blair arrived – he was running ten minutes late. Two vehicles were destroyed’. She was introduced to him by US General […]

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