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

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Schuster, 2018). On p. 217 Turchin summarises Carlson’s position as accusing the Democrats of • becoming a party of the rich; • of supporting immigration because immigrants vote Democrat; • of supporting overseas military adventurism; • of attacking free speech; • of not taxing the wealthy or asking why working people are dying younger. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] magazine profile of Brown with the Brown described by Steve Richards in the Times diary (22 March). ‘The Chancellor could be difficult and, days before a big vote on tuition fees, Richards was warned that the chancellor would be “tense”. Surprisingly, when Brown arrived, he started gleefully embracing the entire film crew. “He couldn’t […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] noted by his wife Senator Hillary Clinton, in her speech to the US Senate in 2002 in support of the so-called Iraq War Resolution. She described her vote for the resolution as saying ‘clearly to Saddam Hussein: This is your last chance; disarm or be disarmed.’136 Hillary ran unsuccessfully for the Democrat presidential nomination […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] to New York, Shanghai or even Amsterdam.81 In the comments below that article someone wrote: Is that the same Sir Paul Marshall that donates to the Tories, Vote Leave, and GB News? It’s almost as if Brexit was a coup by moneyed charlatans to avoid tax, scrutiny, and regulations. The evidence suggests that Brexit […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Chile apart from most other Latin American states.19 The electoral verdict was favourable: having come to power in November 1970 with 37 per cent of the popular vote, Congressional elections in March 1973 saw Popular Unity increase its share to 44 per cent.20 At the same time as his Popular Unity government was driving […]

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