Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] its client army under the warlord Chiang-Kai-Shek. All of a sudden, the US had ‘lost China’. The so-called China Lobby – a coalition of banking, contraband (e.g. drugs) and feudal military interests, exemplified by former colonial governor of the Philippines, Douglas MacArthur – began a far-reaching campaign to mobilise the US as a whole […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] to digest and I’ve skimmed only parts of it. Here are the first few essays as listed at the beginning of the magazine. ‘Jeffrey Epstein, CIA’s MK-Ultra, Drugs, Mick Jagger, & Courtney Love’ by John Potash ‘Guccifer 2.0, Seth Rich, & WikiLeaks: Finding the Ghost in the Shell’ by Elizabeth Lea Vos COVER STORY: […]

Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] of jail free’ card: for a few thousand dollars of support for the contras they could fly their product in unhindered. And so the guns out and drugs back pattern began. Iran-Contra is frequently short-handed as weapons-for-hostages. More significantly it was guns-for-coke. The MJ-12 theories about alien-government contact are presented but she forbears to […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A bit of this is true: the BBC certainly supports the human rights culture and multiculturalism. But how could it […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] certain in the way that the natural sciences are certain. The point about such behaviour is that human beings are not desiccated calculating machines. People drink, take drugs, smoke and overeat because it gives them pleasure or to satisfy an addiction, which in a sense is pleasure or at least an easing of pain. […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Politicians and economics Few politicians bother to learn elementary economics and the monetarist idea of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] against communities like mine that that sparked my political interest and awakening. Today, in those very same communities, working-class lives are ending unnecessarily because of a failed drugs policy. Think of all the families who have lost a child or partner, lying in a manky alleyway with a needle in their arm or a […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] 6 May 2023. See note 23 above. Commencing at 23m 33s. 41 13 old, he’s in his late fifties now,42 and he has lived a life of drugs and alcohol 43 where he has jumped from one cause to the next cause to the next cause, always arguing on, like, the worst side possible […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at the end of the 1930s, can cause a sort of birth trauma: a foetus, struggling inside the womb, […]

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