Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
Given a WTO-driven free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] the negative aspects of satellite systems – their role in the US war-fighting infrastructure; their use in distorting defence estimates; the abuse of their data by the Reagan administration hawks to justify Cold War expenditure and rhetoric to the American public; and the severe difficulties the programme has run into after the detonation of […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] limit was reached.) Congressional bans on aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted by Oliver North in the Reagan White House with Pentagon and CIA support, provoking the Iran-Contra confrontation. Indonesia’s acute crisis today recalls in its details the political uncertainty at the end of […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] which are already pro-Western” and should, therefore, be supported. It’s the dream of ‘roll-back’ in the Third World. The British state and to a lesser extent the Reagan Administration – certainly the State Department – are wilfully backing the wrong horses. But there is slightly more to it than this, for Becker is creeping […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
Blair Anthony Seldon London: Free Press (Simon & Shuster), 2004, h/b, £20 What a tome! At 755 pages, with 40 chapters and 3000 plus footnotes, the book is neatly divided into chapters on either specific historical periods or significant individuals. The picture that emerges of Blair is striking in its variance from much of […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] were again welcome in Fiji. Later that year he became the first South Pacific head of state to get a full-scale red-carpet welcome at the White House. Reagan praised his “political courage” in allowing nuclear warships into Fiji. Secretary of State Shultz told him: “Your decision to restore access to United States naval vessels […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] was founded by David McMichael as the organ of the Association of National Security Alumni after he had resigned from the CIA over its politicisation under Ronald Reagan. It is worth remembering that the Reagan administration actually tried to persuade its population that the U.S. was threatened – and threatened militarily This is discussed […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] democratic governments’ such as Libya, or Burma for example. (19) In 1986, having launched from a British airfield his bomber raid on Colonel Gadhafi’s family, President Reagan described the Libyan despot as a ‘unique threat to free peoples’, a ‘rogue regime that advances its goals through the murder and maiming of innocent civilians’. […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] South Africa. The restrained optimism of the essay’s conclusions, written in the first year of the Carter presidency, may sound a little odd after six years of Reagan. Support for drug-running criminals has moved from being the dark underside of U.S. foreign policy to (in the case of the Nicaraguan Contras) being at that […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] is behind the firm’s success. Amongst Carlyle’s other advisors have been Bush’s former Secretary of State James Baker III; Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the SEC; former Reagan administration Secretary of Defence, Frank Carlucci; ex budget chief Richard Darman; and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. John Shalikasvilli. Similar politerati pepper […]
