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... emphasis is on the private-public partnership this entailed: Mr Corporate Director and the organs of the US state (CIA, State Department et al) working together. Much of this is new to me (but I am not expert in the field), the detail Lucas has assembled is impressive, and the scale of the operations mind-boggling. For example, in 1951 an inter-departmental 'Inventory of Cold War operations' was 144 pages long, with organisations such as the Lions, the US David Cup tennis team and the Yale Glee Club listed alongside the more obvious American Legion. Something not too far from a kind of corporate state was created in this ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-18.htm
... a contentious one, and not just in my school-yard. It was presented more along the lines of Obama's alleged hidden loyalty to Islam: a Catholic president, it was argued, would be subservient to his master in Rome. That Kennedy's own political strategists brought the issue into play, in order to appeal more to fair-minded Americans, reminds us that Kennedy was first and foremost a creature of politics, of power, and never a creature of religion. Yet when it comes to discussing his assassination, the most striking feature of those who propagate the official 'lone, crazed assassin' line is their omission of the crucial, wider issue of motive. The ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-46b.htm
... Professor Peter Dale is distinctive in its depth of coverage, its detailed Scott (University of California, Berkeley), whom they documentation, and in the absence of the rhetoric of the radical admired. did so by publishing a small anti-estab- left so prevalent in its brother publications. lishment, "newsletter for about 50 like minded friends;" some- thing "we wanted to read and no one else would do it." The Beyond its unabashedly anti-establishment tenor in general, problem of what to call their publication was solved by Dorril, a writer and sometime British probation officer, who LOBSTER is anti-intelligence services in particular; those of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 21 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/1992-intelligence-guide-peake.pdf
... 3pc of GDP. ' (emphasis added) 1 As an exercise, ask yourself which economic changes would regenerate places like Hartlepool, say, (or Hull, where I live); then ask yourself if those changes are compatible with membership of (a ) the World Trade Organisation and (b ) the European Union. (Never mind whether or not they would be compatible with lower carbone missions etc.) Page 57 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 So financial services are only 7.1 % of GDP. Even after three decades of policies indifferent, if not positively hostile, to manufacturing,2 and a decade during which a 6% decrease in manufacturing GDP ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-057.pdf
... the price of his incisive and well- written The Collapse of Globalism, first published four years ago. Try this, for example, on the 2008 mea culpa of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006: 'If you believe that history has come to an end, you explicitly banish memory from your mind. Greenspan was "shocked". Like a small child who had ventured into a world beyond his experience or imagination, he did "not fully understand why it had happened". But he had been paid to be the world's ultimate financial father and so there was no one to teach him or slap his hand. ' Saul ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-131.pdf
... . Felt. Who is applauded, but not much examined. Who is he, other than a G-man? Well, he's the fellow who was outraged by the Watergate break-in, which (we're told) was about Nixon's evil spooks breaking into, and bugging, the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate. (Never mind that the only bugging device found inside the DNC was characterized as a broken 'toy' by Felt's own FBI that's a very different story.) Doesn't it seem a little odd that Felt should have been so outraged by James McCord's break-in at the Watergate, when he himself was presiding over a maelstrom of black-bag jobs ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-47.htm
... 2006 Lobster Contents | Cover Image After Dark, David Kelly and lessons learned , Sebastian Cody Everything's gone off the rails except the ideology , Anthony Frewin The decadence of our political system , Tim Pendry Children and the Official Secrets Act , Corinne Souza Tittle-tattle , Tom Easton Dismantling Yugoslavia: the biggest of big lies? , Robin Ramsay Mind control update , Robin Ramsay The Cecil King coup plot as precursor to Gordon Brown's 'government of all the talents' , Roger Cottrell View from the bridge , Robin Ramsay Agee, the KGB and us , Robin Ramsay All the news that fits , Tom Easton Some reflections on the life, times and politics of Sir James Goldsmith , Simon ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/index.htm
... history but talks to those who helped make it. These include Christopher 'Monty' Woodhouse whose covert activities in the region after the Second World War included the Iran coup of 1953. This is Fisk's observation on that 1997 meeting at Woodhouse's retirement home in Oxford: 'The coup against Mossadeq, the return of the Shah, was, in Woodhouse's mind, a holding operation, a postponement of history. There was also the little matter of the AIOC, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - later British Petroleum - which Mossadeq had just nationalised. You could tell from the way he spoke, the urgent movement of his hands, that this had been one of the most exciting moments ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-47.htm
... (ie US, NATO) intelligence services are good things; the Soviet version is a bad thing. Story ends. But it is nicely done and by the standards of some such isn't too expensive. The Radical Right: a world directory Ciaran O Maolain Longman, London This is as massive and impressive as it sounds, a fairly mind blowing piece of research. The subject index runs to 69 pages. There will be nits to pick from almost everybody interested in the right, but this is a world directory, over 70 countries. The very idea of it is breathtaking. AMOK: Third Despatch Illustrated is the subject categories in the most interesting mail order catalogue I ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Nov 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue17/lob17-13.htm
... Johnson and David Cameron from Bullingdon Club days, is Radek Sikorski, a former employee of Rupert Murdoch in Eastern Europe and of the American Enterprise Institute. Sikorski is now leading the charge for the siting of US missiles around Russia in his capacity as Poland's Foreign Minister. Mention Poland in British politics and the name Denis McShane MP springs to mind. The son of a Polish émigré, McShane was, like Sikorski, deeply involved in Solidarity there before he rose to prominence in international relations, in his case as Foreign Office minister. He didn't manage to match Sikorski's rise to the top job, but his influence remains considerable (Lobsters passim) through his work on behalf of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-18.htm
