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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] paid a heavier price than most”. The fact he had no such contacts was clear to me in 1981, when Searchlight obtained evidence of a planned neo- Nazi bomb attack on the Notting Hill carnival in London, and Gerry and I had to use a convoluted route through a friendly journalist to get the […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 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 suppression campaign across […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Gibbs) came to see me and tell me of his discussions in Holland with the German General Wenninger about possible peace terms. The General said that the Nazi Party felt themselves hemmed in and would welcome a face-saving peace. Colville was private secretary to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, to whom Dunglass was Parliamentary Private […]

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] rely on subterfuge to be successful. In the same way that spin-doctors don’t wish to become the focus of the news, or, in an earlier age, the Nazi propaganda machine sought to camouflage itself, this form of political messaging seeks to avoid public cynicism about politics by trying to conceal itself as ‘normal chatter’. […]

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