Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] anecdotes about individuals, this makes no serious attempt at the second half of the subtitle. Despite listing the large numbers of Rhodies in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton administrations, the authors simply reject the various claims that there is or has been a Rhodes Scholars network within the American ruling elites. Carroll Quigley is […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] and bankrupt the Mexican economy. (The economic damage and sums of money involved are vastly greater than in the British government’s Sterling/EMF disaster) 1995 30 January President Clinton guarantees a 50-billion dollar loan to Mexico to bail out the collapsing stock market. The Mexican market gambles of American companies like Goldman Sachs, a huge […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] whom Berlet crusades and Alexander Cockburn pontificates — know it. But it is still news to a small group that control the diminishing ‘progressive’ press in America. Clinton, another Trilateralist? This ‘progressive’ press has been blindsided by a special-interest multiculturalism that has the ruling class laughing all the way to their banks. Unlike in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
Votescam (again) Reading the papers and listening to the radio in the days immediately after Bush’s election victory brought home what a parallel universe we readers of magazines like Lobster are living in. Here we had an enormous election surprise: despite many of the pre-election polls in the last few days of the […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] FSA and the companies, they would never be told anything. The problem was they didn’t have the proper resources to find out for themselves.’(10) (emphases added) The Clinton administration’s part in the drama In the New York Times of 30 September 1999 in ‘Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending’, Steven A. Holmes […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
Dangerous Liaison Between EU Institutions and Industry This is the first publication of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Amsterdam-based foundation which will ‘monitor and report on the activities of European corporations and their lobby groups’. Very nicely produced and illustrated, this is 72 A-4 pages and costs £5.00 in the U.K. and US $10.00 in […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] of the US strategic furniture. Despite mounting near-unilateral military efforts in Iraq and the Balkans, the doctrinal case for pre-emption found few takers in a decidedly risk-averse Clinton administration. Steeped in the ‘institutionalist’ tradition in US foreign policy, Clinton/Gore were uninterested in missile defence and had little rapport with a Pentagon still firmly wedded […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
The articles on Blairism and contamination in Lobster 33 are tremendously useful in understanding the recent political changes in the UK, and also in understanding ‘fusion paranoia’ as a cross-contamination argument. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s surely not a coincidence that the fusion idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism Edited by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003, £14.95 The Politics of Anti-Semitism Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair Oakland (US) and Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003, £9.00/$12.95 The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century Scott […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] the Rockefeller dynasty with a life-long interest in conservation and other charitable activities. HPF received $100,000 from Rocke-feller to prepare the ultimate case-log which would convince the Clinton administration that UFO’s are real, and that the US federal government has concealed its true research and study findings. In these collective efforts there were a […]
