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... precipitated the resurgence of open class warfare in the 1970s to which the coercive state can be seen as a response. The first signals of such a state in mainland Britain can be seen with Callaghan's establishment of his 1976 economic seminar to accommodate the demands of the IMF (in which experts outnumbered politicians two to one) and changes to the conspiracy laws in 1977. The latter criminalised much trade union activity and other expressions of dissent and led to the show trial of Des Warren and the Shrewsbury Three and to the Persons Unknown trial.(9 ) The coercive state can be seen to be properly consolidated with the defeat of the miners and wider labour movement in 1985. This ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 30 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-22.htm
... , notably the Economic League in Britain, in response to the rise of the left. For left academics, some of this is rather bold, striding into the kind of territory usually held by the right – all those elite planning groups, for example – and the authors feel obliged to admonish the reader that this is not about a conspiracy. Or rather it's about lots of them: 'Yes, they plan and organise with each other, but there is no secret conspiracy operating behind the visible front. The visible front does just what it says on the tin – it aims to run the world. ' (p . 81) About half the book is on Britain ...
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... | Next Issue 55 Psi Spies: The true story of America's psychic warfare programme Jim Marrs Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b I'm not a fan of Marrs. I didn't think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn't included in his CV on the rear cover, for some reason) about 9-11 and its aftermath was a sorry collection of conspiracy theories and sloppy thinking. But this isn't bad, mostly reporting of official material and interviews. It is Marrs' misfortune to have had this book's publication in 1995 'suppressed', ...
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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 55) Summer 2008 Last | Contents | Next Issue 55 Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the global nuclear weapons conspiracy Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark London: Atlantic Books, 2007, £25, h/b This is not an area I have any expertise in and I am hardly competent to review this. But I found this big (500 pages), massively-documented book an absolutely riveting read. The authors' account of how Pakistan acquired nuclear technology can be crudely reduced to two strands. In the first, all manner of Western European companies supplied nuclear- ...
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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 55) Summer 2008 Last | Contents | Next Issue 55 Cock-up, conspiracy, or both? Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of people from within or close to the British and American states asserting this in various forms in the ongoing blame game. To give just a few examples: ...
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... for writing about trains and boats and planes: the chair of the Commons Select Committee on Transport was Gwyneth Dunwoody, life president of the Labour Friends of Israel until her death in April. When the donations scandal erupted last year, in which the LFI was implicated, Temko wrote a defence of the lobby group in The Observer, dismissing conspiracy theories about the extent of its influence. Proceeding with inquiries?At this writing the promised party inquiry by former Labour Party and Blair minister Lord Whitty into the fund-raising activities of David Abrahams has yielded nothing deemed capable of publication. The word from a senior Labour official was that Whitty was being prevented from publishing other than a ...
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... and Armenian Genocides Mark Phythian, The Labour Party, War and International Relations, 1945-2006 Mark Purdey, Animal Pharm Jonathan Cook, Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the plan to remake the Middle East Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the global nuclear weapons conspiracy David Miller and William Dinan, A Century of Spin: how public relations became the cutting edge of corporate power Andrew Defty, Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53: The Information Research Department Jim Marrs, Psi Spies: The true story of America's psychic warfare programme Edward T. Haslam, Dr Mary's Monkey Mark ...
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... spent on restructuring London's underground railways. Nice example of prudence, eh, Gordon? Where would we be without consultants? I've always liked NASA's definition of a consultant/ expert: 'An ordinary guy a long way from home. ' A good study of the period from the end of the war to privatisation is David Henshaw's The Great Railway Conspiracy (Hawes: Leading Edge, 1991). Last | Contents | Next ...
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... million in the modern age be directed into such a policy at the whim of one man and his coterie? Because our political system has undergone a quiet revolution, that is why. Harold Wilson could defy the superpower on Vietnam not because he feared mass protests but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party's Partnership in Power reforms (4 ) because the State Department was the ultimate beneficiary. Similarly, the necessary market revolution against the sclerotic corporatism of special interests in the 1980s should have been the prelude to a new market-driven social ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-11.htm
390. Re: [Lobster #56 (Winter 2008/9)]
... .(16) And although we've yet to experience a UK equivalent of the Patriot Act (allowing the FBI fairly unhindered access to library records), a recent survey carried out by CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) indicates that libraries are experiencing 'increased police and security services activity. ' (17) It's a conspiracy .'Our findings call into question current questioning about the function of conspiracy theories. If [they] are a means to provide explanations for uncertain events, or are a response to powerlessness, then it is surprising that people are not prepared to accept that they have been influenced by them. ' (18) Not too surprising, ...
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