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 […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] a telephone kiosk in Bonn in July 1986, West German police had found eight superbly-forged British passports with a genuine Israeli passport and a number of Israeli embassy envelopes. International investigations revealed that the forgeries had been destined for the Israeli embassy in London for use on offensive operations by the Mossad. The Mossad […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] a telephone kiosk in Bonn in July 1986, West German police had found eight superbly-forged British passports with a genuine Israeli passport and a number of Israeli embassy envelopes. International investigations revealed that the forgeries had been destined for the Israeli embassy in London for use on offensive operations by the Mossad. The Mossad […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant Bernard Porter The Assange affair rumbles on. Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, at a cost of God knows how much to the taxpayers of Ecuador, and more to those of the UK, to pay for the police stationed around it ready to whisk […]

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[…] information war going on in Spain. This was the excuse needed for pressure to be exerted across the Hispanic world to get Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had claimed asylum.11 Klarenberg writes regularly for The Grayzone which is anti-American, antiIsraeli and pro-Russian. The Grayzone’s founder/editor, Max Blumenthal,12 attended the […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] lived with their son Wolf-Rüdiger in the years when her husband was in captivity). The list includes two sons of Roger Chance, press attaché at the British embassy in Berlin in 1938; Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty 1937-1940; Pamela Baldwin, daughter of the British prime minister; Stewart Blacker, […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] never cross over…..’ Remember, the US was coming out of Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of our buddy in democracy, the Shah. Jimmy Carter took […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] handed over the federal judiciary (including the Supreme Court) to these people, he has also taken a stand against abortion. Even further, his moving of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem powerfully resonated with their end of times theology. There is a peculiar irony in the evangelical support for Israel because, in their […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] make a published ‘Leahy’ refers to John Leahy, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office official who had previously been on the staff on the staff of the British Embassy in Dublin. He became an Assistant Under Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office in 1975 to replace Michael Cudlipp, who had been appointed by Harold Wilson […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] suggestive not conclusive. This group helped remove Jimmy Carter as president in 1980 by arranging that the Iranian state not release the hostages taken from the American embassy until after the presidential election of 1980, which Reagan won. The relationship between America and Saudi Arabia – the real ‘special relationship’ – was cemented with […]

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