Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] the domestic economy would be guaranteed by an international order which made impossible the competitive currency devaluations and protectionism of the interwar years. The arrangements for this new dispensation could only be made by the Anglo-Americans, who were committed by history and their inheritance of an economic tradition rooted in the tradition of Adam […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] a politician and a homemaker — used as human guinea pigs by the US Department of Energy. Appearing in the Albuquerque Tribune, a newspaper in sparsely populated New Mexico with a 35,000 circulation, the articles sparked interest in the experiments among major national newspapers. On December 7, 1993, Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary ordered […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] Historical and Legal Bibliography 1983-1979 (1980), nearly 450 pages, running to some 5,134 entries covering books, magazine articles, records, TV programmes, and news items from both the New York Times and the Washington Post (though not concurrently). Bringing the work up-to-date to cover the years 1980 through 1992 would probably require a volume twice […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] from a hard-line, law and order Home Secretary such as John Reid, arrested and expelled from the country, but are instead welcome guests, mixing freely with both New Labour and Conservative politicians as well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] So I says, ‘Listen, they’re the bus company… I can’t help it. Find me a better place. I’d like to be printed on the front page of New York Times and a cover story of all my friends on Time magazine.’ Well, maybe. Now it’s getting more complicated. Skolnick’s example doesn’t really work because […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] strategy by projecting Britain as a ‘Third Force’ between the Soviet Union and U.S.. By the 1950s, however, this strategy was perceived to be untenable and a new policy of ‘limited liability’, supporting a limited form of European integration without British participation, was adopted.(2) The 1948-56 policy of ‘limited liability’, changed between 1956 and […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] little interested in the ‘men in brown suits’ who appeared thoroughly unelectable and those that were wealthy were only going to ‘invest’ in sure winners. I k new of only three significant sources of funds at that time from traditional networks (though there may have been others) and all were spoken for: the trades […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
This is an extract from a chapter called ‘Continuities of Empire’ from Pieterse’s forthcoming book Empire and Emancipation to be published by Praeger, New York. If the rest of the book is as good as this is, we are in for a treat. “So marked was the Anglo-American rapprochement that many informed people suspected […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] as well of a shift from policing the criminal law to a more general policing which is often beyond statute or legal precedent. Other indices of the new areas of repression in our present society are the sudden and phenomenal rise in the level of the prison population since the late seventies and the […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] the CCF in solidifying connections between American and European intellectuals at a time when economic, political, and military links between the two continents were also entering a new level of cohesion. Before the CCF, the internationalist interests of the non-Stalinist American Left and the US government did not always coincide. In 1948 Dwight Macdonald […]
