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, […]

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 […]

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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’ […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Richard Helms for lying to Congress about CIA efforts to sabotage the Chilean elections. He was offered the job of CIA Director by both Presidents Ford and Reagan. He also sat on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Ford and Reagan administrations. See Thomas, The Man to See pp. 340, 334, 472; […]

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[…] that reality differed greatly from the view that Soviet intelligence directed all the Warsaw Pact agencies. As for the ‘terror network’ theory invented by those around Ronald Reagan, she writes: . . . the 1980s saw a number of prominent American journalists, practitioners, and politicians advance ideologically driven interpretations of state-terrorism. Most famously and […]

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