The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as president in 1980 by arranging that the Iranian state not release the hostages taken from the American embassy until after the presidential election of 1980, which Reagan won. The relationship between America and Saudi Arabia – the real ‘special relationship’ – was cemented with the 1973 Saudi-American deal that the Saudis would only […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1 2 It’s a formidable achievement’. (pp. 33-34) ‘A formidable achievement’! It would certainly have resulted in the impeachment of any previous president – except perhaps Ronald Reagan. Is Sopel’s response really the right one when a president clearly demonstrates a determination to stay in office by any means necessary? And when Trump turned […]

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