The crisis: an historical perspective

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a compromise between planning and the free market. The post-war state, seeking to avoid a return to the conditions of mass unemployment and social and economic in security whose consequences had proved so destructive, committed itself to sustaining through its own spending an overall level of economic activity (‘aggregate demand’) capable of generating the […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] middle-class “public servant” consensus Schumpeter had praised in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942). It could expand the numbers involved, square its own interests, and exit into relative security. ‘Mastering the system involved privileging the already privileged, as the Farepak episode showed, confirming its inegalitarianism and long-term untenability. In 2008 as much as during the […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] period. The author claims that the sensational press coverage of both the Rumrich and Duquesne cases raised public awareness about the threat posed to US democracy and security by German agents, and created a short-lived interest in Hollywood thrillers about heroic ‘G-Men’. Specifically, Warner Brothers released Confessions of a Nazi Spy in May 1939, […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.9 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of or 7 Available at or . 8 9 . 4 the 1980s, […]

Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, to hear complaints relating to conduct by the intelligence and security agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It is also the only appropriate Tribunal for the purpose of certain proceedings under s7(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998: […]

The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British Neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the ‘war of terror’ by Tom Griffin, et al

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] This well-referenced report tells us that the HJS promotes a strongly pro-Israel agenda; organises anti-Islam activities, particularly against British Muslim students, and advocates a transatlantic military and security regime. The authors conclude: ‘The fact that HJS refuses to publish its list of donors also highlights its own illiberal tendencies. Far from promoting democracy both […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] the Heath government’s 20% inflation. Gorman, pp. 162 and 3 52. For the complete list, and some details see Blum. 53. The head of the US National Security Council said the British economic crisis ‘was considered by us in the White House at that time as the greatest single threat to the stability of […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] O’Brien’s office.” “We tap them, they tap us, it’s routine,” he said.’ (p. 188) It is surprising that a former senior CIA officer, whose speciality had been security, let something like this ‘slip’. More support for the Copeland thesis quoted above, perhaps. But the author shows that at least one other member of the […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

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[PDF file]: […] who wanted to force the government’s hand by violence’. What particularly annoys him are those people who have since gone into print criticising the conduct of the security forces and ‘who insist on comparing the ten to fifteen thousand Mau Mau killed with the hundred or so Europeans killed’ – ignoring the casualties suffered […]

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