Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] that the assault on US constitutional democracy that Trump was carrying out while in office is going to continue regardless. Inevitably comparisons with Weimar Germany come to mind. There are neo-Nazi militias (thankfully few in number at the moment) openly parading in the US; the Republican Party seems wholeheartedly committed to a racist voter […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] historically as well in philosophically, this is a bracing warm-up class for the overdue heavy lifting this country’s politics badly needs. Like The Return of the Public Mind, the latest book from Chris Hedges is well footnoted and indexed. Hedges has covered wars around the world, is a columnist for Truthdig.com and a widely […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] to the country that had defeated it. President William Clinton was quoted as saying that the time was at hand ‘to bind up our wounds’.6 2 Never mind that President Clinton avoided the draft and any personal wounds at the time; it does stretch the imagination to compare some 55,000 deaths with over three […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] . 10 8 chaired the Jewish Leadership Council, a key body in promoting the ‘Labour anti-semitism’ scare?11 This is just one of many questions that come to mind reading this tour d’horizon of the much-travelled diarist. But first he must be thanked for telling us so much about the workings of UK government and […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] connection to the death of Otto Warmbier Nick Must This article concerns events from the last two years that took place in North Korea (NK). Bearing in mind the secrecy that surrounds not only that country itself but also the overt (and covert) efforts of Western nations to destabilise it, some of what follows […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] the global warming agenda and his desire to see large transfers of wealth from the first world to the developing world. Yet despite this authoritarian caste of mind, he still fancies himself to be a pro-markets man. This book is worth reading for one reason and one reason only: as a primer on the […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: The two Goulds Robin Ramsay In ‘The crisis’ in issue 62 of Lobster I referred to the economic debate during the Labour Party’s policy review, which produced the Meet the Challenge, Make the Change document in 1989. On page 6 of that are these sentences: The Conservatives are the party for the City. We are […]