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The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] useless and powerless (or, for some on the libertarian right and the Marxist left, a source of evil and tyranny). This wasn’t how things looked before the Reagan and Thatcher-led counterrevolution. Yes, the world has changed since then. But if it came to a serious conflict between a major multinational and the UK government, […]

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11 Aug

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"The spycops affair should have been one of the biggest scandals in our domestic politics since the end of the Second World War. Instead, it got kicked into the long grass."

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The consequences of Thatcher's infatuation with the theories of Milton Friedman; the tramps of Dealey Plaza; Trump, the Saudis, and the 9/11 network; more.

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19 Jun

"Stanley Bonnett was a former Daily Worker copy boy who had survived five Arctic convoys to the USSR. His nemesis as a spy came in 1985 under an Observer headline: 'CND editor passed information to Special Branch'."

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