Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[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 countries, and, the death penalty is no longer in force.8 However, social attitudes are […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b Robin Ramsay If I was going to be generous I would say ‘Close but no cigar’ to professor Olmsted’s account. She has at any rate identified one of the central issues, expressed in her final paragraph: […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Acknowledgements (p. viii): ‘This is a history of things that did not officially happen using primary sources that few realise exist.’ If the subheads are familiar – Iran, Suez, Oman, Yemen, Malaya, Indonesia, British Guyana, Northern Ireland etc. – most of the content is new, thanks to an enormous effort at official file reading […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Carlson Tonight’. (p. 127) Even more astonishing, although Meadows does not recount this episode, on another occasion, in June 2019, when Trump was considering air strikes against Iran, the President actually phoned Carlson to ask his advice on whether to go ahead and decided to follow the Fox News correspondent’s urging not to authorise […]