Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] and thousands of troops recruited by the ‘West’ to support the Tsarist armies and fascist Siberian Republic. It is essential to bear these over-arching contextual points in mind when considering the value of classified US documents and their disclosure, whether by Wikileaks or Bob Woodward. It is essential to bear these points in mind […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] evidence and photographs, at the end which I had enjoyed the ride but still had almost no idea of (a) what was and wasn’t important here (never mind what was and wasn’t true); (b) how close Danny Casolaro had got to any of this; (c) who had killed him. One of the few clear […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[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 59 (Summer 2010)
[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 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] been a slow news day when the newspapers put on their front pages the fact that the Labour Party had hired a former Obama strategist to master mind their forthcoming election campaign. Of course they looked to America. Where else? As these columns have reported ad nauseam for nearly twenty years, the Labour Party […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[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 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he strays off familiar territory it goes wrong. He has a short chapter on mind control, for example, which in ten pages, citing only three books, one newspaper article and five websites (none of them serious sites on mind control issues), […]