Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

Articles

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime -- Garrick Alder
The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection -- Jonathan Marshall
Brexit beginnings -- Simon Matthews
Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath -- Jonathan Marshall
The View from the Bridge -- Robin Ramsay
The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’ -- Garrick Alder

Book reviews

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin -- reviewed by Bartholomew Steer
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World by Antony Loewenstein -- reviewed by Colin Challen
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown -- reviewed by Simon Matthews
Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright -- reviewed by John Newsinger
On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor -- reviewed by Nick Must
Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant -- reviewed by John Newsinger
Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report -- reviewed by John Newsinger

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20 Nov

Column extras. Oswald and the Angleton mole hunt; the British-American Project again; the myth of Britain's economic ranking; the Cold War's arms race inverted; the passing of Tony Bunyan; more.

Robin Ramsay's "View from the Bridge" has been updated.

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20 Nov

"Hanton shows how US corporations own and effectively control the British economy, and how they siphon off vast profits while paying little or no tax."

John Booth (@JohnBooth2017) reviews Angus Hanton's "Vassal State: How American Runs Britain"

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14 Oct

Column extras. A US apologia (sort of) by the Council on Foreign Relations; a self-eulogy by Tony Blair; the Israel lobby again; a raspberry for Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England; more.

Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" has been updated.

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/the-view-from-the-bridge-52/

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14 Oct

"TA reservists are officially civilians. Did Thatcher use this loophole as cover against allegations that the army was used against the miners?"

Scott Newton (@1956historian) in "Historical notes on The use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike"

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/historical-notes-on-the-use-of-troops-during-the-1984-85-miners-strike/