Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘caddish’ behaviour towards the women who fall for his (undoubted) charm. I’m also not at all convinced that all his Wikileaks revelations were politically justified, even in liberal terms; or that governments should not be allowed some degree of strict confidentiality to pursue delicate negotiations. Enter Marianne Ny N one of this, however, bears […]

lob81-british-gladio2

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[…] intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal politicians. In this context it is a very striking list of speakers. Major Alexander Greenwood had been one of those preparing to meet the Communist ‘threat’ […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of these events. The thin white ghost Julian Assange fell out with the major media partly because of a culture clash between the radical hacker movement and liberal journalists; but mostly because he wanted to control how they handled the material. As everyone discovers eventually, you can’t do that: you give it to them […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] first two chapters.3 Nixon believed that papers about those events leading up the 1968 election were held in the Brookings Institute in Washington, a bastion of (relatively) liberal thinking on foreign affairs. Nixon wanted Brookings burgled and the papers stolen. Nixon set the tone for ‘the plumbers’, the off-the-books Author interview at or . […]

Israel, the lobby and its critics

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[…] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and made to perform as a slave. His identity was long a mystery until Hod suggested it was the film director Anthony Asquith,2 the son of the Liberal Prime Minister. But ‘A writer of my acquaintance told me he thought not’ continues Pizzichini. So, who was this slave? Our author doesn’t bother to hang […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] redundancies. This article indicated that Brown, even at this early stage, had a conformist, centre-right outlook. He inveighed against the political left, radical shop stewards and ‘ liberal documentary makers’, seeing them as a distraction from what was properly a local matter which Scottish people alone should try and resolve. He also said that […]

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