Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] deal of new detail. The CIA’s role in getting Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago published in the West is described; as is the Agency’s encounter in Paris with Richard Wright and James Baldwin. They were both initially promoted by the CIA until they noticed that the Agency’s people were only interested in their criticisms of the […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] for civil rights in Vietnam 65 For example, Bob Kovach and Chelsea J. Carter, ‘U.S.-Japan deal withdraws 9,000 Marines from Okinawa’ CNN (27 April 2012) , Ann Wright, ‘Guam Resists Military Colonization’, Common Dreams (17 August 2009): ‘In 2008, the US Ambassador to Japan had to fly to Okinawa to give his apologies for […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] days in the discussions of the new global elite, the oligarchs, or the 1%, is William Domhoff, the American sociologist who, following in the footsteps of C. Wright Mills, was examining their power forty years ago in books such as the 1971 The Higher Circles. Mr Domhoff, I am happy to report, is still […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Friends of ‘the Friends’ in the North W atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] is missing. 3. As are the destabilisation operations against the Labour and Liberal parties and the ‘wet’ Conservatives in the mid 1970s. He refers once to Peter Wright, only to dismiss his claims. The Atlantic semantic29 I am on the e-mail list of the Atlantic Council30 and received notification of a meeting of theirs, […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] US and UK. He remains a believer in Cold War shibboleths such as that the KGB were running the unions in the 1970s. He is what C. Wright Mills would have termed a NATO intellectual, who also wrote for Encounter. Below I offer a specific focus on Brian Crozier’s ‘Shield’ organisation, which included Eden […]