Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] overthrown by a revolution. Despite this US support, the populist Islamic revolution got out of US control, with the result that on 4 November 1979 the US Embassy in Tehran was invaded by militant students, taking 52 embassy staff hostage. The Carter administration tried to negotiate their return, but Khomenei was intent on humiliating […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] an old joke on the Left about the US regime: ‘Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?’ The answer: ‘Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.’ In a conversation the son of a Honduran tobacco plantation owner told this author that in the nation’s capital, Tegucigalpa, the three most […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London.4 Levy was a retired businessman who had made his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major fund-raiser […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] not live up to the advertising. There is nothing about MI6’s role (if it had one). Hancock was acting ambassador during this period after most of the embassy staff were evacuated and it is that role which the book describes. There is a great deal about the day-to-day difficulties involved in maintaining the British […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of Fight. Iran, we are told, has been waging war against the United States ‘for nearly forty years’, ‘has long supported al Qaeda’ and the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa were ‘in large part Iranian operations’. The anti-American global alliance of which Iran is the lynchpin includes both ‘ISIS and al Qaeda’ […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] neo-Nazi, they fomented an investigation into me by Internal Affairs in Revenue, from which I was cleared. CSIS thought I was funneling money from the South African embassy to Preston Manning’s campaign against Joe Clark. Here, Preston Manning was investigated. This story is told as a first/second-person narrative in chronological time with flashbacks recounting […]