Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] production of munitions. It even referred to āChurchill Matrixā (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would in Scottās view, have refused licenses or the export of machine tools if it had known about the contents of […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] that existing material has been digested, this isnāt just that synthesis; this is a giant step forward. In almost every chapter there are major revelations among the new information. To take just two examples: the chapter on IRDās role in the removal of Sukarno of Indonesia will entail a complete revision of extant accounts […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] young son watching the ex-president on television. After a panelās worth of contemplation, the boy asks, āHeās lying now, isnāt he?ā The parents beam with pride. āA new generation recoils!ā In this study of Nixonās image-making, and Americaās perception of it, David Greenberg recoils not at all. This could be seen as academic neutrality, […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] āsource within the Crown Prosecution Serviceā. Now this is impressive: London free-lance goes to Nottingham and finds a source within the CPS willing to break the law for him? (I wrote to the Nottingham CPS about this and have not yet had a satisfactory reply.) Irving reports how he had filed a Freedom of […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] problem.) (5) An electronic voting system gave Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus. Which is bad enough until you learn that only 638 people voted. In New York, voting machine problems surfaced in a contested state Senate race. Elections officials disclosed in court that seals were missing or broken on 22 impounded voting […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] Age of Insecurity (reviewed in Lobster 35) was a careful, detailed demolition of the delusions of the free marketeers, their loose talk of globalisation and a ā new world orderā; and the mistakes being made by nominally left-wing parties in adopting the free market nonsense. In 1998, when this appeared, the authorsā advocacy of […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] is being anti-semitic. This is considered in a very good article in the US magazine The Nation 2 February 2004, by Brian Klug, āThe Myth of the New Anti-Semitismā, in which Klug reviews four recent American books which attempt to argue that line. 5 There is a series of reports by Patrick Martin on […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] circumscribed Egyptian āland grabā in the same category as the āopen-ended Anglo-American war against terrorismā. Firstly, Victorian Liberalism permitted more open debate about āimperialismā and āterrorismā than New Labourism has allowed us. Newton would be better deployed recounting how Gladstoneās flexibility about such healthy debate enabled him to resist the financial, annexationist interests Newton […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] generation of Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of x-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year. The entire Health budget was 60 million liras. The money paid […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) Ā£Ā£Ā£
[…] (and worse). So contact him via Lobster. Smithās story, which I have only sketched in here, is a bomb waiting to go off under the British state. Notes Secret Africa: British Treachery and Phoney Independence, press release, September 1991. In the estimable Anthony Verrier, for example, we find this: āCritics of Colonial Office policy […]
