Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] candidate. NuLab was born and one of its parents was Israel. This looks like a fairly simple operation: Israel identifies Blair as very pro-Israel and the Israeli embassy in London connects him to the Israeli lobby in Britain – for the future. It wasn’t much of a gamble. In 1994 John Smith had already […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[PDF file]: […] suggests. In a 1989 seminar on the IMF incident, Donoughue revealed the following. In the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] was my task to restore it. And I made a step towards the goal. It was dictated by common sense. Of course, I could complain to our embassy about missing license, refer to the law… ‘21 A Kyrgyz court jailed Maksim Bakiyev in his absence in March 2013 to life imprisonment for complicity in […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] for alleged anti-semitism.68 In a previous life Smeeth worked for BICOM, the Londonbased Israel lobby organisation, and was named as a ‘strictly protect’ source in a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.69 Both Aaronovitch and Smeeth have been frequent contributors to the Jewish Chronicle, a paper repeatedly found breaking defamation laws and publishing codes […]