The Global Economy 1944-2000

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] in a similar position. But they have both developed enough political clout to do this. The lesson is clear. Neither countries nor their peoples are constrained to be towed in the wake of international capital. They have political choices. Notes 8 Ironically, this was the time when Richard Nixon declared, ‘We are all Keynesians, now’.

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Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]

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Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] slush funds were created under the control of……well, this isn’t clear. At one point we are talking about the CIA; and then we are told that Richard Nixon, a politician, gave control of the biggest of the funds to the Japanese Prime Minister. (We are talking tens of billions of dollars here.) If true, […]

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Mrs Thatcher, North Sea oil and the hegemony of the City

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] and maintain the external value of sterling. Instead, Heath floated the pound. Nothing, not even the international value of sterling, was to get in the way. (President Nixon had already floated the dollar.) Heath’s gamble didn’t work for two reasons. In the first place, with no commercial or economic experience, Heath simply didn’t understand […]

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Drugs, oil and war

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b   On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those political […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] and tactfully described as a Chilean Rupert Murdoch) had already been lobbying influential Americans to argue for ‘aggressive US intervention’ to remove Allende, and eventually met with Nixon and Kissinger to further press his case. He succeeded and the US did indeed intervene. El Mercurio (bankrolled to the tune of millions of dollars by […]

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[…] Professor Bill Gaines of the University of Illinois announced that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was ‘Deep Throat’ who provided information about the Watergate break-in. This site contains a great deal of material related to the investigation conducted by Gaines and […]

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Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] use of our territory without notification, let alone consultation, as if NATO did not exist.’ The Americans were not pleased and viewed him as dangerously pro-Arab. President Nixon openly alleged that his “softness’ towards the Arabs was an attempt to safeguard his Ostpolitik by supporting the Soviet Union in the Middle East. Kissinger and […]

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‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] with explicating the Church’s overt attempts to influence political decisions and policies in the countries within which it operates. Thus, for example, Moon’s attempts to support Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, raise money for a variety of anti-communist causes, and influence Congressional votes through lobbying are reasonably well known; (7) […]

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The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] were worried that the country’s socialist regime would harm profits). Mind you, Bernays did later turn down an attempt to hire him made by presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, showing that the bottom of even the deepest barrel can be scraped eventually. But by then, the road that led to 1991’s fictitious tales of baby-killing […]

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