Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] . . terrorism attributed to Muslim extremists (“Islamic terror”). It is also about the incomparably greater violence of the state, both the state in general and its hidden hand in terrorism.’ Yes, the state has used ‘incomparably greater violence’ against Muslim countries than we have experienced in the UK. But has the state’s ‘hidden […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] countries as threatened outposts of European civilisation defending their existence against barbarians at the gate.’ Sasha Polakow-Suransky is well placed to throw light on this still largely hidden history. With family roots in both South Africa and Israel, he worked up the book in what reads like a labour of love from his Oxford […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] in Britain has ever engaged in recent years in a serious debate on the ends or means of policy towards overseas investment’. This she attributed to ‘a hidden bias in the political, economic and indeed social system, towards overseas investment’. 1 5 In the 1950s and 60s the British state clung to the pretensions […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] either efficient or fair, or is leading to the well-being of society.’ (p. 200). What Stiglitz is complaining about here is both the amount of taxpayer subsidy, hidden and overt which American business receives, from agricultural subsidies to the present gigantic banking bailout, and the general ability of corporate America to reduce competition through […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] successor to the post office, i.e. the internet, he creates a space to discuss what we mean by rational management by the state and points to the hidden attractions of Trumpism. He divides the categories in this discussion between Sovereignty (or the claim by rulers for the monopoly on the use of violence); Administration […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] from interviews used by Cornelius Ryan – that I will briefly recount a little of what still largely remains to the British public a part of our hidden history. Urquhart recounts that in 1941 ‘Boy’ Browning, the youthful, ambitious and well-connected husband of novelist Daphne du Maurier (their daughter was later to marry Montgomery’s […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] MP writes for Morning Star, therefore Labour MP is a communist sympathiser; therefore the Labour Party is communist. Geoffrey Stewart-Smith’s big pamphlet in the mid 1970s, The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, was a classic of this kind. 37 Obviously I am describing a version of political correctness. The British Right lampoons the […]
