lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] One of the central threads of the original QAnon nonsense was that senior 5 figures in the US Democratic Party in Washington (including then presidential candidate Hilary Clinton, obviously) were part of a paedophile network in the US and that it was this network which really ran America. The idea of a paedophile network […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] centre and left still reeling from the referendum result. The figures for the US Presidential election are even more depressing than those for the UK EU referendum. Clinton beat Trump by 65.8 million votes (48.1%) to 63 million (46%). Trump ‘won’ because of the way the US distributes the popular vote among its electoral […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] writer and commentator, Jerome Corsi, who was for a while the Washington DC bureau chief for InfoWars. He even ‘hopped aboard Pizzagate’ and relentlessly went after Hilary Clinton. According to Corsi’s 2014 Hunting Hitler, Hitler’s escape was assisted by Allen Dulles, who had ‘recognized that National Socialism was the way of the future’ and […]

Book reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] He well understands the US dimension to New Labour, with both Brown and Balls apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less 192 Summer 2010 attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] It is only in Chapter 6, which looks at examples of factional conflict from the 1990s, that Raso commits to a clear position, claiming that both the Clinton and Trump Administrations were respectively targeted by the conservative and liberal oligarchical factions. Although, in the case of Trump, Raso stops short of directly accusing the […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] in December 1998 and MacShane records that according to No 10 special adviser Roger Liddle – later Baron Liddle – ‘Blair was far more gung ho than Clinton about bombing Iraq’. What surprised MacShane was that the targets ‘included the very centre of Baghdad’. He cannot have been that worried, however, because this entry […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

Lobster Issue

[…] could join at some point in the future.12 However, Bush left office in January 1993 and under his two successors the position was transformed. In 1996 President Clinton openly advocated expanding NATO to include the members of the old Warsaw Pact. By 2005 Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, […]

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