A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] in 1942, authorised the deportation and incarceration of US citizens of Japanese origin or descent, without due process. The last internment camp was closed in 1946. Ronald Reagan was said to have made a small fortune dealing in forced sales of real estate forfeited by interned Japanese. Until World War II, wars among whites […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] about reducing the size of government is redolent of Ronald Reagan’s remark that government doesn’t solve the problem but is the problem. But in the era of Reagan and Thatcher’s attempts to reduce the size of government, the employment of consultancies rocketed: At the time of the 1979 general election in the United Kingdom, […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] about reducing the size of government is redolent of Ronald Reagan’s remark that government doesn’t solve the problem but is the problem. But in the era of Reagan and Thatcher’s attempts to reduce the size of government, the employment of consultancies rocketed: At the time of the 1979 general election in the United Kingdom, […]

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[…] of the MJ-12 papers begins on page 17 of the PDF file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: Profiting from War Keenie Meenie The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes Phil Miller London: Pluto Press, 2020, £12.99 (p/b) John Newsinger Phil Miller has written a tremendous book, based on a huge amount of research, that really is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the politics of the world that […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] a price. Britain won the Falklands War because of signals intelligence provided by the CIA from its listening posts in Pinochet’s Chile. As payback, US President Ronald Reagan expected the British to involve themselves in covert support to the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua. Part of Britain’s support for the Contras involved a private security […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]

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