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Lobster Issue

[…] 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.3 Klarenberg writes regularly for The Grayzone which is anti-American, antiIsraeli and pro-Russian. The Grayzone’s founder/editor, Max Blumenthal,4 attended the […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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.3 Klarenberg writes regularly for The Grayzone which is anti-American, antiIsraeli and pro-Russian. The Grayzone’s founder/editor, Max Blumenthal,4 attended the […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] world of the MSM, the announcement that Evan Davis is to take over from Jeremy Paxman as Newsnight presenter was probably rather welcome in the US London embassy. For the 52-year-old who is stepping into the shoes of the now-retired BBC TV veteran also followed him into membership of the British American Project (BAP), […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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 […]

From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] with a simple explanation about ionising (nuclear bombs) and non-ionising radiation (RF, microwaves etc.). It moves on to look at the ‘Moscow signals’, which saw the US Embassy in Moscow irradiated with microwave radiation and may have led to the death of two US ambassadors and illnesses amongst Embassy staff. The staff were fed […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] new documents were made public, with more to come, settled any debate about whose information was reliable. Emphasise apparent. The caller said something like ‘Ring the American embassy in London for some big news’, not ‘JFK’s going to be killed in Dallas.’ See . 35 36 10 perhaps not – that these confessions have […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] recently, a story from the Guardian on the family of one Charles Thomas. He was a CIA officer in the 1960s and was stationed at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. Essentially, the adult children of the late Mr Thomas are hoping that President Trump will release documents produced by the Mexico City CIA […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

Parish Notices

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 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] with Lobster 11 (1986). 27 8 IRD. After the election of Allende, British Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home told IRD specialist A. S. Dyer (based at the British Embassy in Santiago) to cooperate with FWF there, indicating concern at the top of the British government about the turn events had taken in Chile. FWF was […]

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