Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, the … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] be a common lexicon and belief system with other flimsy theories that have crossed the Atlantic and taken root in the UK during the same period. Neo- liberal economics, ‘the End of History’ trumpeted by Francis Fukuyama and the corporate management strategies of Tom Peters promoted a set of values (successfully in the UK […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
Dangerous Liaison Between EU Institutions and Industry This is the first publication of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Amsterdam-based foundation which will ‘monitor and report on the activities of European corporations and their lobby groups’. Very nicely produced and illustrated, this is 72 A-4 pages and costs £5.00 in the U.K. and US $10.00 in … Read more
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] — from the head of the then Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger. This is referred to in Brian Freemantle’s The Fix, (Corgi, London, 1985) p. 88. Liberal baiting In May the Observer newspaper sponsored a debate on censorship at the National Film Theatre. (Part of a PR exercise which included two crappy little […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] probably still has) connections with British intelligence. Intermittently funny in an unintentional way, Good Times Bad Times is a revealing portrait of the intellectual bankruptcy of the liberal end of the British ruling class. RR Contact A.F.N.Clarke (Pan, London 1984) Direct, earthy account by ex-Parachute Regiment Captain of his experiences in Northern Ireland from […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] fix that sustains us in our daily desire for a better world. Since 1975, Peter Preston has been the principal gatekeeper at The Guardian, the paper of liberal conscience launched in Manchester in 1821 as the voice of reforming non-conformity. For 20 years he was editor and then became columnist and eminence grise when […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Milne, apparently, was told off for supporting the Labour candidate in Lincoln against Taverne. 5 Wrigglesworth remains active in the North East. He was President of the Liberal Democrats in 1988, Chair of the Northern Region CBI in 1992 and currently Chairs UK Land Estates and the Newcastle-Gateshead Initiative. 6 It might be more […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] gas businessmen like the Brown brothers, the FPC was keeping prices, particularly of gas, artificially low and the main culprit was Olds, who was portrayed as a liberal. ‘There is nothing more important to the welfare of the natural gas industry in Texas than that Olds be defeated’, Charles I. Francis, a Brown and […]
