1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 23 November 1976 Tony Benn noted in his diary, ‘Peter suspected the figures produced by the Treasury.’ As did Prime Minister Callaghan: ‘The only doubt in my mind, borne of previous experience, was how far to trust the figures.’ James Callaghan, Time and Chance (London: Collins, 1987) p. 422. Healey wrote: ‘I cannot help […]

finklestein 1976

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[…] 23 November 1976 Tony Benn noted in his diary, ‘Peter suspected the figures produced by the Treasury.’ As did Prime Minister Callaghan: ‘The only doubt in my mind, borne of previous experience, was how far to trust the figures.’ James Callaghan, Time and Chance (London: Collins, 1987) p. 422. Healey wrote: ‘I cannot help […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] covered from time to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the February 2000 press release, mentioned above. The old mantra, ‘If you stick to the truth you won’t have to remember whatever lie you’ve told’ comes to mind. 9 have not done. My disagreement with him is that I don’t believe he could possibly now remember an unredacted name on an MI6 intelligence document […]

1976 anmd all that

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[…] 23 November 1976 Tony Benn noted in his diary, ‘Peter suspected the figures produced by the Treasury.’ As did Prime Minister Callaghan: ‘The only doubt in my mind, borne of previous experience, was how far to trust the figures.’ James Callaghan, Time and Chance (London: Collins, 1987) p. 422. Healey wrote: ‘I cannot help […]

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[…] covered from time to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life . . . .” ‘Clegg . . . had already changed his mind about the deficit reduction plans. He was concerned about the firestorm engulfing Greece, and 9 23 Global Research, Nathan Allonby’s ‘Britain’s police state: London arrests based […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of war), the length and verbosity of the various US enquiries set up to determine culpability for being ‘unprepared’ at Pearl Harbour, suggest a widespread frame of mind that takes as its starting point that America is entitled to regard itself as invulnerable. 1 Could a ‘demonstration’ of the bomb have been laid on? […]

The two Goulds

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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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] issue 28 I have argued that Chauncey Holt 26 Stone’s book is reviewed in Lobster 66 at . 27 ‘Roger Stone vs. the world: inside the conspiracy-filled mind of legendary GOP trickster’ at I pointed out Caro’s omission of Estes in Lobster 65 at the end of 28 probably wasn’t the ‘third tramp’ on […]

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