Confessions of an Economic Hitman

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] followed the lead of bosses in my mould, who demonstrated the system by their own greedy example through rewards and punishments calculated to perpetuate it.’ (p. 204) Notes This was also a feature of the British empire. Scott Newton refers to this happening in Egypt. See his Historical Notes in Lobster 42, p. 27. […]

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…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] copy the moves which were made when MI5’s chief target was so-called subversives. It was not just your actual subversives who were monitored, but people who k new or associated with, and might support or be influenced by subversives. Organisations had to be be ‘checked out’ to make sure they didn’t contain subversives or […]

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Nixon’s Shadow: The History of An Image

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] young son watching the ex-president on television. After a panel’s worth of contemplation, the boy asks, ‘He’s lying now, isn’t he?’ The parents beam with pride. ‘A new generation recoils!’ In this study of Nixon’s image-making, and America’s perception of it, David Greenberg recoils not at all. This could be seen as academic neutrality, […]

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The Great Unravelling: From boom to bust in three scandalous years

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Paul Krugman London: Allen Lane, 2003, h/b, £18.99   I only caught up with this at Christmas. Krugman writes a column for the New York Times and this is a collection of those columns. Krugman is an academic economist at Princeton and saw pretty early that Enron and others similar were just frauds, and […]

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Wallace Clippings planted on Chapman Pincher

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting campaign in the U.S. backed by pro-I.R.A. organisations in New York. There is no shortage of ex-Vietnam veterans – many of them Catholics of Irish origin – prepared to hire out their services. And the U.S. […]

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Searchlight again

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] to carry out his research wherever it may lead him, and condemns the use of intimidation and guilt by association to silence discussion.’. On October 15 the New Statesman and Society published a piece by its deputy editor, Paul Anderson, which surveyed the dispute with Searchlight and took O’Hara’s side. Gerry Gable replied in […]

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A vote in the can is worth two for George Bush

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] opposite 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 […]

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The view from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] is being anti-semitic. This is considered in a very good article in the US magazine The Nation 2 February 2004, by Brian Klug, ‘The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism’, 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 […]

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Terror Within

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] to do any satisfactorily. One should always be careful when questioning an author’s research, but the absence of a bibliography means we can only go by the notes appended at the end of the text, and these reveal little original research. Also, there seem to be obvious omissions from the possible published sources for […]

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] 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 […]

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