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 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 […]
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 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] ‘Evidence…….is overwhelming that there was a plot involving militia types and government infiltrators – who knows? – as prime movers to create panic in order to get Clinton to sign the infamous Anti-Terrorism Act.’ (p. 297) Evidence of a plot there is. Evidence that the plot existed to force Clinton to sign the act […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
The Case Against Israel Michael Neumann Oakland (US): CounterPunch, $15 Edinburgh (UK): AK Press, £10, 2005 The Power of Israel in the United States James Petras Atlanta and Black Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95 In a year in which Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King Oxford University Press, 1995, £25 Few who lived through the launch of the Social Democratic Party are likely to forget the impact of the creation of the Gang of Four in 1981. The avowed intention of the four former Cabinet ministers was to offer Britain a fresh alternative – a […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Blair in Johannesburg today as one of his main contributions to the summit.’ Mandy finds a new benefactor In The Times of 10 June 2002 was ‘ Clinton helps Third Way find new direction’, describing a weekend conference, ‘The Third Way Successor Generation’, jointly promoted by Peter Mandelson’s Policy Network and the American Democratic […]