Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

Articles

Lobster Issue 33: Contents
Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites -- Robin Ramsay
The British American Project for the Successor Generation -- Tom Easton
Spooks and the EEC -- Robin Ramsay
New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s -- David Osler
UFOs in the White House Pantry: The Rockefeller Initiative
The View from the Bridge -- Robin Ramsay
CIA and Drug-Trafficking by Contra Supporters -- Peter Dale Scott
Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media -- Daniel Brandt -- Steve Badrich
Notes on contamination -- Robin Ramsay
Obituaries -- Robin Ramsay -- Harry Irwin
Sources -- Robin Ramsay

Book reviews

Phoenix: Policing the Shadows, and, Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland -- reviewed by John Newsinger
The Secret War for the Falklands -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
The KGB Lawsuits -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain's Spies Came In From The Cold -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Popular Alienation
Knee Deep in Dishonour: The Scott Report and its aftermath -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Remote Viewers, and, Psychic Warrior -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay

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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.

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"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"

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