The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 […]

Garrick 1-6 this one

Lobster Issue

[…] election campaign for his first term had begun, Stone registered a donation-seeking website called StoptheSteal.org and used it to pump out claims that Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton would cheat to win the election if the results looked too close to call. Which was exactly what George W. Bush had been accused of doing […]

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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

The Dispossessed: The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival by Christophe Guilluy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: The Dispossessed The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival Christophe Guilluy Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025, p/b, £15 (approx.) Simon Matthews This slim volume, 133 pages, is by a French geographer,1 who has developed a theory of ‘peripheral France’. He comments on the growth in holiday homes by the coast, and the use of properties […]

General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD.

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] of his examination of Joseph A. Milteer and Willie Somersett; of Clay Shaw, Kerry Thornley and Gordon Novel; of General Walker’s life and times; and Oswald in Clinton, to mention but several. Years ago the Hollywood trade paper Variety would describe a brilliant failure as a flop d’estime, and it is a term that […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration (Simon and Schuster, 2019, p. 281). 3 A prolific writer, his publications include the influential The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, first published in 2006, but reissued in 2016. He has also published an avalanche of proTrump books: […]

Simon review

Lobster Issue

The Dispossessed The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival Christophe Guilluy Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025, p/b, £15 (approx.) Simon Matthews This slim volume, 133 pages, is by a French geographer,1 who has developed a theory of ‘peripheral France’. He comments on the growth in holiday homes by the coast, and the use of properties […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] wrong-footed by the Goldstone Report’s findings. The Obama administration in Washington DC made clear its rejection of the Report from the very beginning. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would later boast of how she had ‘defended Israel from isolation . . . including opposing the biased Goldstone report’.13 Labour were caught out, however, and […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Africa.’ 7 Turki had mentioned the Safari Club in a 2002 speech at his old university in Washington DC. Prince Turki and the future US president Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate […]

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