Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] stupid. Pence celebrates Trump’s great achievements on behalf of the Christian Right. His was ‘the most pro-life administration in history’ (p 209) and he moved the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. For Pence speaking at the Knesset ‘and formally informing the Israeli government of the relocation of the US Embassy was one of […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] deliberately. And then there is this: Whether or not an electoral fraud that brought the stammering Biden into the White House was indeed organized from the U.S. Embassy in Rome. . . a space satellite the Italian arms company, Leonardo into the Dominion voting machines, I will leave aside. (p. 121) For that he […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] to make it more amenable to the US, got under way.4 This took the form of Harold MacMillan having a series of private meetings at the US embassy and Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, publicly promoting the need to address the ‘moral crisis’ facing the nation. Throughout this Eden’s ill-health, with a long-standing […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[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)
[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 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] I was surprised at my lack of reaction. Once upon a time I would have been excited. Now I am merely curious to see what the US embassy in London had to say about our politicians. Am I just getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[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 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] been? Possibly that one of his brothers, Johannes, was a pro-German manager of the family estates in the Sudetenland, whilst another, Gerolf, was secretary at the Japanese embassy in Prague (until 1941) and would later serve on Field Marshall Ewald von Kleist’s staff on the eastern front. In the US he established a relationship […]