Murder in Cairo

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Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the killing […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism Michael Carlson D iscussing the recently released Senate report on American torture, my friend Michael Goldfarb quoted Senator Frank Church, speaking when his Senate committee’s report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel Schorr […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] worked there before he went into intelligence, as had Kermit Roosevelt’s grandfather. (5) (Kermit Roosevelt, who is perhaps best known for his role in the coup in Iran) went round America’s largest corporations asking, “Are you patriotic?”, raising money for the CIA front companies and securing the use of their trusts and foundations. (6) […]

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

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[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, […]

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, […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had past ‘issues’, not least in the case of David Mills (the late Tessa Jowell’s ex-husband) and his ‘attempts to clinch a $200 million aircraft deal’ with Iran, which ‘was in danger of falling foul of US sanctions’.19 Taylor, Ann Former Chief Whip Taylor’s register entry tells us that she is a ‘Member of […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] being forced to compromise in Korea – a considerable psychological blow for white supremacy – the US began a successful season of imperial expansion: inter alia returning Iran to the control of the oil cartel and Guatemala to United Fruit. Nationalist movements in Ghana and Congo were subdued.2 5 With the exception of Puerto […]

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] number of times a nation has been in breach of UN 1 resolutions. In this context, Israel finds itself alongside the likes of North Korea, Russia and Iran, all of which may reasonably be described as rogue states.2 Loewenstein’s book is clearly an indictment – the charge being that Israel unscrupulously peddles military hardware […]

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