Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] On the basis of the opinion polls or the outcome of the recent European elections, few would conclude that purely Conservative or Labour administrations are likely. The Liberal Democrats face a hard time – but will probably just about keep enough seats to remain a factor. UKIP may take enough votes away from Cameron […]

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World by Antony Loewenstein

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[PDF file]: […] things which are considered acceptable elsewhere. So this question arises from a reading of The Palestine Laboratory: does Israel go beyond accepted norms (however unpalatable those ‘ liberal’ Western norms might be)? This is difficult. Recent history is littered with examples of ‘enlightened democracies’ feeding wars with their baleful technologies. Perhaps we need to […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] School of Economics. He was politically active in South Africa and remains involved in Southern African causes. He is now a London-based businessman and is a former Liberal Democrat councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. He co-authored British Intelligence and Covert Action and KGB/CIA, Global Intelligence: The World’s Secret Services Today and was […]

The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club

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[PDF file]: […] by laundering huge volumes.’ 4 Nicholas Shaxson, a consultant at Britain’s Tax Justice Network, has shown how offshore tax havens are now financially starving both the neo- liberal capitalist states and the European social democracies by diverting much needed tax revenue. In his Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World, […]

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