Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[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’, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] late 2007-early 2008: for example, one could simply read the July 9 2007 issue of Fortune magazine to discover who the major backers of John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama were. One could also have read Business Week (25 February 2008) or the Los Angeles Times of 21 March 2008. Through February 2008 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[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 […]

The Colonel and I: My Life With Gaddafi by Daad Sharab

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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 […]

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