Off Message, and, Standing for Something

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on Blair’s ‘irresistible addiction to money and those who possessed it’ and Mandelson’s ‘arriviste vanity…..which demanded intimate association with celebrity and wealth’. These character flaws led to New Labour being ‘drawn without protest into the bed of market capital’. While his comments on Blair and Mandelson are undoubtedly true, he is focussing on symptoms […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Friends of Israel is going to rebrand itself ‘as a membership organisation to argue actively for the two-state solution and develop the “progressive case” for Israel.’ Its new director, Jennifer Gerber, was quoted as saying: ‘People seem to forget that Israel was founded on social democratic values and remains an example of a socially […]

Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] genuine US policy that respects an independent Cuba? Dr. T. P. Wilkinson Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow Gerald Horne New York: Monthly Review Press, 2014 N o later than the Wilsonian propaganda campaign to bring ordinary US citizens and the world to support US intervention in […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] present work. 1: Flights from reason In 1999, private detective Milo Speriglio1 published a document purporting to indicate that Marilyn Monroe had been murdered because she k new too much about the cover-up of human contact with extraterrestrials. Mr Speriglio said that this document had been passed to him by UFOlogist Timothy Cooper, who […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was assigned, and to a campaign with Australians that officially never took place. Generalissimo and Viceroy of the Philippines Douglas MacArthur had agreed to deploy secretly to New Guinea a contingent of US Forces to assist the Australians in obstructing the Empire of Japan from staging an invasion of Australia from New Guinea’s Originally […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] can never happen again.’ But this is evasion and deception. The mass immigration of the past decade wasn’t caused just by the absence of transitional controls on new EU member states. It was the result of a policy of encouraging immigration to generate economic growth – a policy NuLab copied from Bill Clinton’s America. […]

Thatcher versus the City of London

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the money supply’. Mrs Thatcher seems to have assumed that ‘controlling the money supply’ could be done relatively easily and quickly, and didn’t grasp that the City’s real agenda – i.e. more ‘freedom’ to lend money and more ‘freedom’ to move money abroad – which was being articulated notably by the chief secretary to […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] appeared with Neil Kinnock, whose CV at this point included membership of the Institute of Workers Control and who was regarded by some Labour MPs as ‘the new Nye’.4 Which of the two would get a first footing on the ladder of ministerial office? At this stage (and not alluded to in the obituaries), […]

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