Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] This is all being organised by al-Qaeda, and, moreover, ‘it has recently been reported’, that this invasion ‘may be’ being carried out in alliance with Venezuela and Iran. Rubin puts forward a plan for how to defeat this attempted Muslim takeover. Among his recommendations are an immediate ban on all Muslim immigration into the […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] known to be a strong backer of vocal Israel supporters John McCain and Joe Lieberman.The authors write: ‘Tony Blair is publicly signed up to Saban’s views about Iran and Israel. If that were not the case, it is most unlikely that Saban would be funding his Faith Foundation…. Money comes with strings attached. Tony […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: Conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts THEY KNEW How a Culture of Conspiracy keeps America Complacent Sarah Kendzior New York: Flatiron Books 2022 John Newsinger Sarah Kendzior is one of the most interesting commentators writing about contemporary America. Her two previous books, The View from Flyover Country (2018) and Hiding in Plain Sight (2020), are essential […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] all. The idea of slowly developing your own deterrent, as and when funds are available (the approach followed by France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran(?)) doesn’t appear to have been entertained, with a radical short-termism preferred instead. countries, and, the death penalty is no longer in force.8 However, social attitudes are […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] “put an office at disposal”. He also boasts of “dealings with the secret services of many other countries including France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Israel, Morocco, Iran, Argentina, Chile and Taiwan”. As early as p. 20 it is hard to avoid concluding that Crozier is describing how he was recruited by MI6; and […]

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at best. We are told that Saddam Hussein ‘ rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] at best. We are told that Saddam Hussein ‘ rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, […]

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[…] very top of their societies: e.g. bishops and the Chief Rabbi in Parliament; the Vatican’s one time refusal to recognise the state of Israel; the Ayatollahs of Iran; or allegations that Pope Francis may have had a nodding acquaintance with Argentina’s Junta. Whatever the truth of the last of these, it will have done […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the USA). The man who had invaded Iraq and who, in his memoirs, regretted that they had not gone on to replace the regimes in Syria and Iran, was silent during the 2009 assault on Gaza. However in February 2009 he gratefully accepted the $1 million Dan David prize prize from Tel Aviv University […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] at best. We are told that Saddam Hussein ‘ rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, […]

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