The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[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 […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

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[PDF file]: […] assassination, and how his purchase was meant to have protected him, remain unclear.) There is also plenty on organised crime, in particular the wave of tax evasion, fraud and murders that accompanied the ‘Aluminum Wars’. So closely packed with mega miscreants is this section that it reads like a sort of X-Factor for Bond […]

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 […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] bribery which culminated in national legislation and international agreements. Has the legislation worked? The author shows the British dragging their feet at every opportunity until the Serious Fraud Office began digging into the 1985 BAE–Saudi Al Yamamah deal while Blair was in office.4 The author shows the British state in full obstruction and evasion […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] security of the United States. While we have had some presidents who have failed miserably in office, we never had one that had a long career of fraud and deceit before being elected. We elected a crime boss who has no common decency.’ (p. xii) What he has trouble comprehending is that millions of […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

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[PDF file]: […] an alleged hijacker’s paper passport found in the burning debris and handed to the New York Police Department whose head on 9/11 was subsequently jailed for conspiracy, fraud and lying under oath.11 More recently we have seen film of President Obama and his top team apparently watching the capture of Bin Laden and then […]

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