That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the situation agrees with that of MI5 and its allies on the right at the time, with one essential difference: MI5 was aware that the ‘Moscow gold’ from the Soviet Union was mostly going to the Communist Party’s industrial department (which was running the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions). As […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] done in his career being a disaster . . . the Dardanelles, intervening in Russia in 1919, the black and tans in Ireland, going back on the gold standard, the Abdication, Norway, intervening in Greece . . . he never really answers questions, offering instead an immense amount of literary obfuscation, he prefers to […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on the principle that currency convertibility was essential for free trade (the primary US interest) and that this could be accomplished by linking currencies to the fixed gold value of the US dollar. Imbalances in exchange rates or trade were to be compensated by extending credit to countries, called special drawing rights (SDR), ultimately […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] sense that I believe society must become aware of what is happening in the dark side of technology. Most important how users contribute to the bag of gold known as personal data. I offer a realistic solutions that can remove oneself from the chain of digital footprints. However, we cannot disappear without a trace […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the Atlantic Council. . 16 See . 17 Duncan diary entry 25 January 2019: ‘Phone call from Mark Carney, Governor the Bank of England, about Venezuela’s gold. They hold bullion which is now worth about $2 billion. Maduro has asked for it back, but the Bank are hesitating, quite sensibly. They want to […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that Lobster article is available for those wishing to lighten their reading load.12 Graeme MacQueen’s The Anthrax Deception offers some important clues to understanding 2001 events.13 Jon Gold made available as a free print download his broadcast interviews of those caught up in 9/11.14 Who was who Other Lobster issues have covered the context […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Sandinistas as the new world evil – although viciously pursued by his ‘Contra-Freedom Fighters’ – never made much of an impression in the American consciousness. Reagan struck gold however when he publicly called Libya’s nationalist leader Qaddafi, a ‘mad-dog’. The image was wonderful. A mad-dog cannot be cured, it can only be killed. A […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was alleged to have escaped with a mere $51 million in cash. And the Taliban claim to have found $6 million in cash, and a stash of gold bricks, in his abandoned palace in the Panjshir Valley. Both men fled to that well-known refuge for freedom fighters, Dubai. What is absolutely clear is that […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ordinary morality. In its essence the Noble Lie establishes rigid divisions (an exploitative cuntocracy) by telling us that only certain people can be leaders: the ‘guardians of gold’. So, as a sop, we can always offer the possibility that only certain people can be cunts and that the chances are they will already be […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] navigation, 7 8 See note 7. Oh, and those nuclear weapons? Cummings seems to think they are delightful. The Manhattan Project is repeatedly touted as being the gold standard of a value for money project. But, surely, he is discounting all of the associated negative factors – the horrific deaths suffered by many thousands […]

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