Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] inaction on climate change.’ p. 75 ‘In 1989, a small group of neoconservatives—both Democrats and Republicans—who had been influential strategists in the Defense Department during the Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush administration came together to produce the Defense Planning Guidance report, which advocated US military dominance around the world. Key among the […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] profits in the US (and most of 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 […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] and that the EU are responsible for the growing use of food banks in the UK and has embraced the economic legacy of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan (both claims are false). It’s hard not to think that his audience, initially heartened by his appearance, would have concluded that he didn’t really know much […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] promoted to Admiral in 1977, and served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Jimmy Carter. He was appointed CIA Deputy Director by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Now 87 years old and leading a very active retirement, Admiral Inman explained 3 what had happened after the 1976 meeting with Dr Mitchell. […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] He praises Barry Goldwater (although he admits that, only recently having read what he actually had to say, ‘he really was an extremist’ (p. 168)), and Ronald Reagan (‘How I loved that man’ (p. 19).) And the late John McCain is fulsomely praised. Inevitably he regards Trump’s attacks on McCain as absolutely contemptible: ‘I […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] United States is not new. It has been a growing influence within the Republican Party since the 1970s, and played an important role in both the Ronald Reagan and George W Bush Administrations. In order to ensure their support in the 2008 Presidential election, John McCain had to install the appalling Sarah Palin as […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] told his audience, looked on by the whole world as ‘a shining city on a hill’. He praised Kennedy for putting a man on the moon and Reagan for winning the Cold War. America was truly ‘the indispensable nation’. After 9/11 the British people had ‘wept for our friends in the land of the […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] supporter President Johnson; ‘2 Eisenhower Aides Given Democratic Campaign Jobs’, New York Times, September 21, 1964. (He would switch again and become Ambassador to Italy under President Reagan.) Another key business ally of Chesler was Gardner Cowles of Cowles Magazine & Broadcasting, Inc., who became the second largest investor in General Development, behind only […]
