Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: Trump, the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 Kathryn S. Olmsted Oxford University Press, 2009, £12.99, p/b Robin Ramsay If I was going to be generous I would say ‘Close but no cigar’ to professor Olmsted’s account. She has at any rate identified one of the central issues, expressed in her final paragraph: […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] His boss at the time was John Smith, leader of the Labour Party and a member of the Bilderberg steering committee. Another attendee in 1991 was Bill Clinton. One can see the value to them of these people mixing with each other, many on the launch pad of their careers. One can imagine Clinton […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] although important, role. In the end, Blair lacked the nerve to call a vote. Mr Turner is acute in his observations of the Labour leader: ‘Unlike Bill Clinton, he was not a charismatic figure, but had learnt the trick of behaving as if he were.’ As for comparisons between Blair and Thatcher, there was […]