Systemic Corruption, Systemic Solutions

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] garbage. Let me leave poor Mr Draper aside for two other examples. Ben Lucas of Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn (known as ‘LLM’) learned that on June 11, Gordon Brown would announce the creation of a new housing inspectorate. Lucas passed this on to his affected clients. He gave me other examples of what he called […]

Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] interview in Steamshovel Press, no. 8, 1993. Her version of the File is available from her direct at PO Box 1292, Cragsmoor, NY 12420, USA for $14.95. Brown, Walt. The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Carroll and Graf/Richard Gallen, 1992. xix plus 651 pp. Bibliography, index. An honest work that attempts to […]

Inside Gordon’s head

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

At a CBI conference in November last year Gordon Brown called for a ‘world-wide campaign in support of globalisation and its benefits. He said the anti-globalisation and protectionist forces ‘fail to recognise the great truth that free trade, open markets and flexibility are the preconditions of modern economic success’.Does he really believe this? The […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] Fizzland: the Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA’ in the American journal Labor History, vol. 39, No. 1, 1998 (pp. 25-42) Using the recently opened Irving Brown papers, as well as other new sources and interviews, Carew has plotted some of the activities of the CIA in the US and European labour movement […]

International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] Plan: Europe rebuilds with American money, buying American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: The great charlatan My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown The Bodley Head, 2017, £25, h/b John Newsinger There were never any fundamental policy differences between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Both men accepted that the world was completely dominated by the super rich and that government in the modern world had to serve their […]

Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public Interest Gerald James Little and Brown, London, 1995(1) Some of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it […]

Harassing Robert Henderson

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

In 1997 Robert Henderson, a retired civil servant, wrote to the then leader of the Opposition Tony Blair to ask for his help. Eventually he wrote a dozen or so letters to Blair and Cherie Booth. Blair then tried to have him prosecuted but the legal authorities refused to act. Blair or someone close to […]

Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] born 22 May 1924, speaks Russian, 1942-45 US Army. 1949 State Department – maybe not officially CIA until 1966. Another of these “colleagues” was Mrs G. Stanley Brown. Could this be the wife of Gordon S. Brown? Gordon S Brown, born 24 February 1936, speaks Arabic, French. 1957-60 US Army, 1961 State Department, CIA. […]

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