The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] to believe happened.’ ‘I was suddenly accused of issuing visas in return for sex, stealing money from the post account, of being an alcoholic, of driving an embassy vehicle down a flight of stairs, which is extraordinary because I can’t drive. I’ve never driven in my life. I don’t have a driving license. My […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] as innocent as he claims. And – the final straw – how could he be said to be ‘unlawfully detained’ when he detained himself? (In the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid extradition.) Well, my longish piece of about a year ago explains pretty clearly, I think, how and why.1 I’ve little to add […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

lob86South of the Border

Lobster Issue

[…] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] introduction to the Israelis by his law chambers colleague and president of the Board of Deputies Eldred Tabachnik. Nor is it still widely known that the Israeli embassy introduced Blair to Levy, who then opened the till that freed his tennis pal from party obligations. Much of what happened under the Blair premiership remains […]

Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] operating on Ukrainian territory. What Nalyvaichenko undoubtedly did have, however, was contacts in Washington DC, established during his time there as a consul to the city’s Ukrainian Embassy. Soon after Nalyvaichenko put forward his tale of mobile crematoriums in Ukraine, it was picked up, parroted, and embellished by two key figures on the US […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Sorene ‘will lead BICOM after 15 years in senior positions at the Cabinet Office, Home Office and Department of Health….Previously head of public affairs at the Israeli embassy in London, Mr Sorene has experience of working on Middle East issues.’40 Perhaps it’s not too surprising that Baroness Tonge resigned the LibDem whip after speaking […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] similar in the first week of the election campaign) illustrate again the complete failure of the mainstream media to handle the Labour–is–anti-semitic operation run by the Israeli embassy in London and its assets.28 Why has the MSM failed so completely at this? Maybe one day some of those involved at editorial level will explain […]

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