The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] he referred to a panel chaired by one Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs from 2001-2009. Dobriansky, wrote Kuzmarov, is ‘the daughter of an ally of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera’. Stealing the 2020 presidential election? I’ve got some time for John Ward at The Slog. He often comes up with a new snippet […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] corporate CEOs very publicly resigned in protest. This was after a confrontation in which one protestor, Heather Heyer, had been killed when a car driven by a Nazi deliberately ran into a crowd of anti-racist protestors Trump made his infamous quip that there were ‘very fine people’ on both sides of the confrontation. His […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] edge by Trump’s performance after Charlottesville, outraged by his failure to condemn the Far Right and his apparent lack of concern at the open display of neo- Nazi antiSemitism. He goes to see the President clutching his letter of resignation but Trump deflects the blame, telling Cohn to his face that his decision had […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] condescension at the efforts of governments to stop them. He covers the less than glorious rise of Switzerland as a haven for German wealth worried not by Nazi seizure (as the Swiss propagandise) but, firstly, war reparations after the First World War and then as a haven for loot during the Second World War. […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] US attempts to bring ‘freedom’ to Vietnam while deploying black soldiers who didn’t even have true freedom in America. Dr King also drew comparisons between America and Nazi Germany – an incendiary proposal and perhaps an unwise one, since it can only have deepened suspicion that Dr King was a crypto-communist. The transcript received […]

Accessibility Toolbar