Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] on Trump? Perhaps a clue can be found in the infamous meeting between Don Trump Jr. and the Russians who claimed to have compromising material on Hillary Clinton. The Trump team were sent a four-page memo ‘asserting that Democratic donors had allegedly evaded paying US taxes on Russian investments. They had been donors to […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] magazine could describe him as the fourth most powerful man in the United States. He was, at this time, a pillar of the neo-con opposition to Bill Clinton. Murdoch established the neo-con Weekly Standard with a start-up cost of $3 million in 1995. Edited by William Kristol, it became ‘the flagship of the neo-cons’, […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] from an offshore radio station owned by a Swiss-based electronics company later shown to have had a connection to the Lockerbie bombing.6 Following the Suez parallel, if Clinton had won the US Presidency in November 2016, is it possible the UK might have dumped Brexit by now? The ‘centre’ emboldened by numerous US telephone […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] is still supposed to be a secret1 2). This influence has continued: after the Iraq war Labour paid £530,372 to Mark Penn, a Washington-based adviser to Hillary Clinton. During the run-up to the 2005 election Penn ran secret polling of British voters from his company’s call centre in Denver while he stayed at the […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] for him. ‘By the end of 2009 I had three bulky dossiers in my briefcase – on my arduous visit to India; my productive dinner with Hilary Clinton; and the clandestine trip to Tel Aviv to meet Shimon Peres – to present to the Colonel.’ (p. 164) She never met the Colonel again. Ten […]