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... the formal structures of democratic regimes, is on-line.2 1 Tunander considers a wide range of covert operations – the strategy of tension, Aginter Press etc. This essay was eventually incorporated into a chapter of the book Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty, which I hope to review in the next issue.* Did the CIA shelter Nazis after WW2? Yes they did; and now it's official. A 600 page report of a recent Justice Department investigation of the subject is now on-line.22 Of particular interest may be the chapter which critiques John Loftus's book The Belarus Secret, which for many years was the only source on some of this. 19 <www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-105.pdf
... linings to this otherwise dismal cloud.’ (p. 211). A good idea of where he is coming from can be gleaned from his chapter and section headings which include A New Capitalist Order, Towards A New Society, Toward A New Multilateralism. (I wonder if Stiglitz is aware of how closely these echo in tone the fascist and Nazi slogans of the 1930s?) What form would this Stiglitzian global regulation take? 171 Summer 2010 He would require nation-states to effectively subcontract the economic management of their country to some as yet undefined world authority: 'In a well-designed global reserve system countries with persistent surpluses would have their reserve currency allocation diminished, and this, in turn, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-170.pdf
... to the UK (thus preserving the BBC monopoly) and switching its coverage 2 For details of the range of right wing groups that stretched from Chamberlain to Mosley (and beyond) see Richard Griffiths, Patriotism Perverted (1998). Wellesley was Chairman of the Right Club, a significant and well connected far right faction, and a strong Nazi sympathiser. 3 For Joyce see Francis Selwyn Hitler's Englishman (1987) and for the use made by the Third Reich of Radio Luxembourg see David O'Donoghue Hitler's Irish Voices (1998). Summer 2010 37 instead to eastern Europe. Plugge and his directors rejected these proposals because they would have involved a substantial loss of advertising revenue. The ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-034.pdf
... Pierre Lafitte and Francois Spirito. Who they? Spirio and Lafitte S pirito has been dubbed the father of modern heroin traffickers. He was born in Sicily in 1898 and spent his formative years in Marseilles. The 1970 French film Borsalino 2 was largely based on his life but left out much of his less pleasing side, such as his Nazi collaboration during the war. Just before the Olson business Spirito had been released from Atlanta's Federal Penitentiary where he had been serving a sentence for drug trafficking. Less than three weeks later he was picked up by the US Immigration and Naturalization 2 Borsalino, directed by Jacques Deray,with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon. Based upon a novel ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-004.pdf
... Contents Lobster 58 Arnhem 65 years on John Booth N ow we've reached the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, we can expect a round of reminders as the dwindling band of veterans gathers to mark the sacrifices their comrades made in the defeat of Nazi Germany. But is it too much to hope as The Very Best of Vera Lynn goes on sale that we might experience a little more than nostalgia for a lost sense of national purpose as we again watch The Dambusters, Cockleshell Heroes and The Longest Day? An opportunity for learning something from the disastrous Arnhem campaign of 1944 came and very largely went with its 65th anniversary in September: few of its ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-092.pdf
... XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War Michael Phayer Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, p/b, £15.99 Reviewed by John Newsinger In 1997, urged on by the US government, fourteen European countries together with Canada and Argentina, established comm-issions to investigate the involvement of their banks in the holding of assets looted by the Nazis and their allies during the Holocaust. One particular sovereign state refused to have anything to do with this long overdue initiative: the Vatican. The legal action that resulted from this refusal is still working its way through the US legal system. Why the refusal? As Michael Phayer makes clear, in his fascinating new book, the Vatican ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 113 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-40b.htm
... powerful one. Entitled 'Defeating Hitler' in its original Hebrew edition, Burg's book is not, as he makes clear from the outset, an invitation to Jews to forget the creators of Third Reich: 'They are forever guilty in my court. This is our story beyond the evil of their crimes. The Shoah and the atrocities that the Nazis committed against us are an inseparable part of the active Israeli present.' But the world from which his father fled in 1939 'has changed in nature and character. World super-powers, most of the Christian churches, and a significant part of world citizenry vowed sixty years ago "never again", and this time they meant it. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-34.htm
... academic historian of intelli-gence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antece-dents more or less equivalent to the UK's MI5 shows what you might have ex-pected: the spooks were allied with the conservatives, persecuted the left, hunted reds, real and imaginary (mostly imagin-ary) and kowtowed to the Americans. They had no interest in the Nazis being resettled in Australia after WW2, and were barely interested in Croatian terrorists in Australia even when they began launching raids on Yugoslavia. ASIO was almost a parody of the right-wing security/intelli-gence outfit in bed with the right. The author's account also shows a Labour Party dimly aware of all this, making the occasional half-hearted stab at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-44.htm
... watched MI5 becoming a power in the land, using the post 9/11 'terrorist threat' to enlarge budgets, staff and bureaucratic territory; and he watched NuLab attacking or trying to reform, they would say the British legal-judicial system, tantamount in Evans' view to the British constitution. He tells us that Britain under NuLab is not Nazi Germany but.... In this milieu Evans focuses on MI5. He is not a fan. He shows their expansion, their lack of accountability and their incompetence. He has a chapter, 'The sub-verting of Britain', in which he reminds us of Brigadier Kitson's ideas, the talk of a coup in The Times in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-42b.htm
... massive contributory factor here and one widely recognised in the aftermath.(4) There was a wholesale commitment to disarmament, new international institutions and a shift to defensive military strategies, such as the (highly successful) UK air defence system and the (less successful) French Maginot line. The defeat of the second wave of offence cultists Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan after World War Two brought a new period of international institution-building. But this was put under immediate threat by nuclear weapons. With the stakes of nuclear war so inconceivably high, the idea that pre-emption was not only the logical, but indeed, the moral choice gained a fresh currency. In the US there was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-03.htm
