Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
See note(1) The Conventional Wisdom It is generally assumed that the economist J. M. Keynes was instrumental in establishing the post-war Anglo-American economic relationship. The argument is that, along with the US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Harry Dexter White, Keynes created the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now … Read more
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] covers all the areas under the “third pillar” of the European Union covering policing, Europol, immigration and asylum, the Schengen agreements, the European courts, legal cooperation, internal security agencies, prisons, the military, Northern Ireland, racism and fascism, plus listings of the debates and resolutions of the European Parliament. With 24 contributors from 12 European […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] Freeman, mostly from the Fiji Sun 9th July 1987. “Paul Freeman was involved in a destabilisation action against a NZ labour government in 1975. He received a Security Intelligence Service (SIS) file from an SIS employee, Rohan Jays, with embarrassing information about a Labour MP. Freeman publicly handed the file to the Prime Minister, […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] documents that reveal the British role have been removed from public access and some of them remain closed until the next century – for reasons of ‘national security’. Nevertheless, a fairly clear picture still emerges. Churchill later told the CIA officer responsible for the operation that he ‘would have loved nothing better than to […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] record – and many more off it – in a survey of British policy in the last decade or so through the eyes of the intelligence and security services. Centrally this an account of the increasingly feeble British state clinging to the Americans, willing to pay any humiliating military or diplomatic price to remain […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] to be believed. Where too is Brian Crozier? Since the Langemann papers identified Crozier as a Pinay Circle member who was engaged in setting up a ‘transnational security organisation’, little has been heard of the man or of the progress of the group. Crozier’s last known action — yet another attempt to discredit the […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] had become the new Conservative leader, Goldsmith met Wilson. Latching on to Wilson’s concerns that his office and home were being bugged, Goldsmith volunteered his own private security company to sweep both premises, apparently finding and removing a number of listening devices.(4) Wilson awarded Goldsmith a knighthood in his 1976 resignation honours list, ostensibly […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] the possible threats after 9/11’. Or take Stephen Holmes, a regular contributor to The London Review of Books and research director at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law, who wrote: ‘….we can safely say that the following jumble of motives, seizing different actors at different times, contributed […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] poll tax. Yet no new politico-economic strategy appeared and the defenceless British economy continued to receive a buffeting from international capital, bringing to its people increasing in security, immiseration and social disintegration. The parapolitical dimension The first point that has to be made is that this book is a good read. Porter has the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] They were the first company to envisage the possibility of business computers as early as the late forties. Computers at this stage were still matters of national security and much of the early research work was done by the Rand Corporation, the world’s first think tank, and originally a Cold-War front for USAF intelligence. […]
