The View from the Bridge: Blair. IMF. Bilderberg, etc

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] Cook County”, was the jaundiced comment of one observer, recalling the infamous result that gave Kennedy his victory over Nixon in the 1960 Presidential race.’ Another dumb Clinton On the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from the Fortean Times, conversations between some of the US’s leading purveyors and […]

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The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Peter Oborne London: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2005, £7.99, p/b   Before his minutely detailed account of some of New Labour’s lies Oborne gives us a potted history of lying in the past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, he […]

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Secrecy and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] one political party in the US, with two wings, is only half true. I don’t want to sound too naive here, but whereas the Democratic administrations (Carter, Clinton) mostly tried to do things for the common good as they perceived it (within the limitations imposed by their sources of finance), behind the Republican rhetoric […]

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Web update

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Thanks again to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Although all URLs are checked shortly before publication, occasionally websites unaccountably disappear. Contributions, comments and info welcome – my email address is Secrecy, censorship FOI and released records Freedom of Information Draft Bill http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/foi/dfoibill.htm Link to the draft FOI Bill (May 1999) and FOI […]

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The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. The […]

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Banana Republicans

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] how it commissions and disseminates phoney research, runs smear campaigns and psy-ops, gerrymanders electoral districts, and steals elections. There are fairly detailed studies of the campaigns against Clinton and of the Florida election-theft, but this is a thick skim made by experts: a detailed account would run to thousands of pages. This network’s enemies […]

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Sources: Roundtable. U.N. Lockerbie, etc

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Roundtable I get regular e-mail bulletins from an organisation called the roundtable – not the Round Table but somebody? some people? – trying to document the US ruling elite by the study of its organisations. Really they should be called Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – because it is the CFR they mostly write about; […]

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The view from the bridge

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 […]

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The crisis

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 […]

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Sources

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 […]

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