The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] 36 Amen to that; but this is the man who, while its American correspondent, ran into the Telegraph all the nonsense coming out of the Republican’s anti- Clinton conspiracy. See . 37 Con Coughlin, ‘Can we still trust the CIA?’ at . ‘intelligence’ linking 9/11 to Iraq to provide the pretext for the invasion […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

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

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it was ever seriously weakened, the power of […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] administration would, from day one, have been closely involved in the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine conflict in particular. Gore had been highly active here during the Clinton administration and was acutely aware of how close agreement nearly came in 1999-2000. Gore’s links with the region, and a – by no means inconceivable – […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] have an ‘insidious agenda that is demonic to its core’. George Soros is, inevitably, ‘the undisputed ringleader of this globalist cabal’. (p. 118). In this universe, Hillary Clinton is inevitably cast as ‘Jezebel’! (p. 132) And, of course, Trump has also taken a stand against the ‘environmental extremists’ with their fake warnings of global […]

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 […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] was accepted by almost everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats ( Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence […]

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 […]

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