Still hazy after all these years

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] community, have not been interested in the Wallace case. But it striking that Wallace’s own supporters have generated so little noise. Ketcham concludes: ‘George Wallace’s coalition of conservative Southern voters ushered in the era of the Republican Southern Strategy, which has defined the parameters of victory for the GOP for over a quarter-century. The […]

Confessions of a Crawler

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 1 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Pan Books, 1998, £7.99 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 2 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan, 1999, £25 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 3 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan 2000, £25 Woodrow Wyatt’s diaries are quite remarkable. Any normal persons would have tried … Read more

‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] this century, had played a key role in establishing the system of apartheid in South Africa, and in the process helped to ensure the preservation of ultra- conservative Afrikaner cultural values and Afrikaner political dominance until 199. Yet this organization also existed. It was known as the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB), and it formed a […]

Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] its board of directors: among them Otto Reich, John Negroponte, Henry Cisneros and Elliot Abrams. Currently it is presided over by Vin Weber, founder of the ultra conservative Empower America association and fundraiser for the presidential campaign of George W. Bush in the year 2000. Its executive director is Carl Gershman, a former Trotskyite […]

Fiji coup update

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] SMH story had become “historical record” and was being quoted by other media as fact. The PDU – main target of McKnight’s article – membership consists of conservative political parties from Australia, Canada, Columbia, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, and F the U.S. New Zealand representatives at the meeting were former National Party President Sue […]

America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] at least to those on this side of the Atlantic, are the alliances that the various Jewish lobby groups have built with a dismal array of neo- conservative organisations who regard Israel as a key and significant partner. This feature, also known as American Jewish Conservatism, extends to the Christian Zionists, the End Timers […]

The Liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] advisers (not named) was a confidante of Sir James Goldsmith – another name lurking in the background during the Wilson years – and that Aitken chaired the Conservative Philosophy Group. During his famous weekend at Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Paris Ritz, the only call back to the UK that Aitken made was a lengthy exchange with […]

Why are we with Uncle Sam?

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] defeated two years later in a leadership contest by Margaret Thatcher, whom the Americans had been cultivating and promoting since 1967 as a potential leader of the Conservative Party. This may have been pay-back for Heath daring to defy the Americans. An American colony? Is Britain then just an American colony? Not in any […]

There’s no smear like an old smear

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] must be made by specially suitable undercover activists to penetrate into that bastion of British capitalism and so set up the strongest possible Communist cells within the Conservative Party ….’. This document, I suspect, is a product of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). This impression is greatly strengthened by Braddock’s report of […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

From: M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton’s footnote at the end of his piece on Hess, in your number tries to keep alive Dr Hugh Thomas’s tale that the pilot who reached Scotland could not have been Hess, because he bore no trace of the gunshot wound the real Hess had received in Roumania in … Read more

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