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[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.10 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later claimed that he had made tape recordings of his conversations with various people involved and that it was the threat […]

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[…] numbers rough sleeping, schools, Oxbridge research, medical stats, school league tables, poverty, hospital waiting lists, street crime, ambulance response times, doctors’ working hours, unemployment figures and welfare fraud figures. I’m sure you know of other examples. So why could the political system – the politicians – not admit that the neocon ideas had failed? […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the British Empire, and subjugate Western civilisation in general, to a “One World” Jewish super-state’. (p. 219) By now Chesterton was acknowledging that The Protocols were a fraud, but at the same time insisting that the Jewish conspiracy they exposed was undoubtedly real. (p. 222) In February 1967, the League merged with the then […]

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[…] numbers rough sleeping, schools, Oxbridge research, medical stats, school league tables, poverty, hospital waiting lists, street crime, ambulance response times, doctors’ working hours, unemployment figures and welfare fraud figures. I’m sure you know of other examples. So why could the political system – the politicians – not admit that the neocon ideas had failed? […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] but by ‘the perception that the Afghan government was “irrevocably corrupt”’. The 2009 Presidential election gave public notice of the extent of the corruption with the electoral fraud ‘so egregious and widespread as to stun even seasoned election monitors’. Subsequently, Karzai pacified international opinion by promising to curb corruption. When he made the public […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] peace loving – war making; and replete with crime, double standards and hypocrisy in the ‘too big to fail and too big to jail’ systemic world financial fraud, and so on. Its ideological cover is wearing increasingly thin. The U.S. is fast becoming an ideological phantom! And the Orwellian doublethink laden in U.S. ruling […]

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