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 […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] on the promotion of cultural, economic and military connections between the two countries, including visits to Israel by Parliamentary delegations. Both liaise with staff at the Israeli Embassy in London and campaign against ‘anti-semitism’. The definition of this term, once taken to mean prejudice against Jewish people and Judaism, has now been stretched by […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 12 3 Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. ‘Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did […]

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 […]

View from Bridge copy

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.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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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