Kantor – Bilderbergers – 89

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[…] of Exclusion (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). 14 4 Kendall (see note 14) p. 49. 16 Kendall (see note 14) p. 112. 15 Cyrus Vance, Harold Brown, Michael Blumenthal, Henry Owen, Robert Bowie, Paul Volcker) received influential positions in his administration. Moreover, at least three World Bank presidents (Robert McNamara, Alden Clausen, Barber […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

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[…] 3 hour TV profile of Tony Blair in mid February. Would it tell me anything new about the man? Probably not. Mr Blair summarised? He and Gordon Brown continued Mrs Thatcher’s destruction of the manufacturing sector of the economy; gave the bankers their heads and helped create the economic crisis of the mid 2000s, […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] of, the Kincora situation. This report listed a wide range of Loyalist politicians and other personalities, including Sir Knox Cunningham QC MP, Mr Clifford Smith, Mr David Brown (editor of the Rev. Ian Paisley’s newspaper, the Protestant Telegraph), Mr Thomas Passmore and the Rev. Martin Smyth, both key figures in the Orange Order. There […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the authors’ attempts to identify ‘Wallace’. This was Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace, they discovered, one of LBJ’s entourage. He was identified for them by LBJ’s former mistress, Madeleine Brown, who lived in Dallas and had independently concluded that Wallace was involved in the dirty deed (although she had no evidence). There was one little detail […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] to Vietnam. He explained: ‘Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?…’ 7 An autorotation is a standard emergency procedure […]

The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] properly shocked by its verdict and the subsequent failure of his appeals against it. Along the way Swire observes the servile performances of Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Jack Straw and David Miliband – none willing to challenge the determination of Washington to pin the blame for Lockerbie on Libya. He is […]

Misc reviews

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[…] a major piece of work by any standards. What is Opus Dei? Noam Friedlander 10 Headpress; UK £13.99 US $19.95, p/b Thom Burnett both London: Collis and Brown, £8.99, p/b These are two of the first batch of a new series, Conspiracy Books. Which might lead you to suspect you’d get a conspiracy or […]

View from 92

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[…] be believed until reliable other sources have confirmed it as real. *new* Broon Despite being the unapologetic co-parent of the financial disaster of 2007-9, 1 1 Gordon Brown still has access to the Guardian’s columns for his banalities. In a recent piece,2 he wrote: the US has abandoned its longstanding championing of the rule […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] now plan to control the entire non-EU world so that they can continue to extract raw materials and consume at their present rate. A lot of skinny brown, black and yellow people are going to die to enable a lot of fat Americans to stay fat. This new American empire will not be sustainable […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] highly technical areas of public services, such as environmental monitoring, finance and digital technologies. This became apparent in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the Blair/ Brown years, during the period of the Coalition government’s policy to slash spending on consultants. In one instance, a major rail franchise tender was withdrawn because the […]

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