Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] Summers, The Arrogance of Power: the Secret World of Richard Nixon (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000); Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: the Costs and Consequences of American Empire (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), pp.18 and 71. The document was found on the PRO website at http://www.pro.gov.uk/docimages/KV/2_34a.gif . Haushofer’s list can be inferred from a memorandum Haushofer […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] was ‘dazzled by Blair’s drive and religious commitment’. Two months later, the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, died, Blair won the election contest with Gordon Brown; and Michael Levy set about raising money – the figure of £7 million is widely quoted – for Tony Blair’s personal use. The big early contributors […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] she went down, so did they. (For a while they seemed to genuinely believe that Mrs Thatcher was a libertarian; a bit like believing that Blair and Brown are socialists. ) The book’s title is slightly misleading: the sociology takes up only a small section at the end. This is basically a history – […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
SIS is dead – you read it first in Lobster – but the funeral has not been announced. Established in 1909, it will not make its centenary. SIS once offered a global brand operating in a market that had been previously divided along the lines of accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] under Bilderberg, it should say page 367 where there are two paragraphs explaining that BC was invited to Bilderberg by Vernon Jordan and where he met Gordon Brown. This indexing error has been corrected in the recent paperback edition. From: Sebastian Cody Just to say, p. 37 of Lobster 48 says Wiebes’ study of […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] Front at one point, seeing the far-Right party as a possible vehicle for organicist ideas. (The British National Party today continues what is sometimes called the ‘ Brown/ Green’ alliance.)(21) We shall return to the Goldsmiths below. There are one or two other indicators of the Soil Association’s political attitudes at this time which […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] father, mother or little brother. What is the difference between training SAVAK and training the Gestapo? None – except in the case of SAVAK the tortured had brown skin. Dorril also includes some brilliant walk-on parts including Professor Ann Lambton (known as Nancy) of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She was […]