Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Rise of China and World Order: An Interview with F. William Engdahl’, International Critical Thought, May 2014, p. 134 26 F. William Engdahl, ‘Washington Underestimated the Iranian Mind’, New Eastern Outlook, 10 February 2016, . 27 ‘Kissinger was invited to that meeting, by the way.’ 28 Despite the curious inconsistencies in Engdahl’s wording, many […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] to control, not just the future but also adjacent scholarly disciplines. As Theodor W Adorno wrote of philosophical systembuilders, this is a symptom of the ‘belly turned mind’. My riposte on Turchin’s behalf is that internal divisions amongst the US elites – described in depth in End Times and now playing out within the […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] in the last three years caused by the low payments made in ‘green pounds’ (i.e. Euros) via UK membership of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. But never mind, eh? Trust your Uncle Tony: he may not know how to use a PC but he knows we have ‘the knowledge economy’ coming over the horizon […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] known for advising Democrat candidates so Harding missed an opportunity to balance the picture). And what of those firms – one prominent UK PR company comes to mind – with a history of working for 28 Alpha Dogs p. 219 29 New York Times 9 July 1996 30 Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand (New […]

Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the NSA mass surveillance program operates in a similar fashion, presenting US citizens with an ‘implicit bargain’: ‘……pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you’ll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] records, the invocation of “the ‘Who shot John?’ angle” can only refer to one thing: Kennedy’s assassination. The ambush in Dallas was the first thing on Nixon’s mind as he pressed the director for the agency’s Bay of Pigs files. The president intuited a connection between the failed invasion in 1961 and JFK’s assassination […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Spies for Hire (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008) p. 116 Cloud services market study (final report) – Ofcom or . 5 3 Bearing all this in mind, I think I will choose not to become an unpaid tendril of the intelligence gatherers. It has been asked online whether it is indeed possible to […]

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