Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Konrad Adenauer, Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Franz Josef Strauss, Giulio Andreotti, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Paul Vanden Boeynants, John Vorster, General Antonio de Spínola, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.’ I look at it pretty regularly and every once in a while see something really striking. Recently that was a purported interview with the former CIA […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] can only hope that the reign of terror in and by the US that expanded vastly with the election of Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan will finally reach the consciousness of the white ‘Left’ and those whose sentimental attachment to the American creation myth is sincere enough to rebel against the […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] cited (which also made mention of the formation of the British American Project, in which three members of IEDSS were key players) made clear that the first Reagan administration was seriously afraid that Thatcher, and even Kohl, might not be re-elected. The draft constitution of the new SDP was written in Massachusetts by two […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the market (in other works un-embed it) from the network of regulations and practices within which it had operated since 1945. Both the Thatcher government and the Reagan administration in the USA, elected in 1980, wanted to liberate entrepreneurs and capitalists so that they, and not the state in conjunction with managers and unions, […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of what […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] American Cruise missiles despite protests from Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the woman’s movement. Prime Minister Healey seemed to get to get on quite well with President Reagan, though his private assessment of the former actor, salty and uncomplimentary in equal measure, caused a diplomatic storm when it leaked out. Trident was voted through […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] to the Internet an essay entitled “What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want” concerning the expected war. Included in this were the words of Michael Ledeen, former Reagan official, then at the American Enterprise Institute, which was one of the leading drum-beaters for attacking Iraq: “If we just let our own vision of the […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was heavily involved with the IRC, as was William Casey, who went on to become CIA director under Ronald Reagan. Of particular interest is John Whitehead, a former cochair of Goldman Sachs, who was IRC treasurer from 1960 until 1979, when he became its president, a […]