Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] not believe him. ‘He argued that what young Klitschko had seen in America were fake cities set up to deceive people’. (emphasis added) He only changed his mind when Klitschko Jnr took him to the USA to see for himself. Stephen Dorril had a similar experience circa 1990 (as I recall it). He told […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] to an ad hoc panel to examine the question of how some material still held by the National Archives should be declassified with the FOI Act in mind. Mr Brown had put his finger deftly on the point that had alarmed Mr Blair in 2005, and to which Mr Blair only confessed in his […]
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 82 (Winter 2021)
[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)
[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 […]