Lobster Issue 56 Winter 2008/9
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| Journal: | Lobster |
| Issue: | 56 |
| Date: | Winter 2008/9) |
| Publisher: | Robin Ramsay |
| Editor: | Robin Ramsay |
| ISSN: | 0964-0436 |
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- Harold Wilson, the Bank of England and the Cecil King 'coup' of May 1968 by Scott Newton
- Wilson, Cromer and the City
- Crisis of Confidence
- After Tet
- Wilson’s 'blackmail' worked
- The 'coup'
- Britain’s social democratic moment
- The historic fracture
- Producers’ England
- Tittle-tattle by Tom Easton
- Wick the forgotten
- The son-in-law also rises
- The Lord giveth
- LFI news (Labour Friends of Israel)
- Peter’s friends
- Still one of Peter’s friends?
- Out of focus
- Victims of history
- The once and future king? by Simon Matthews
(The demise of Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London)
- Early Ken
- Local government
- The long march to Brent East
- Labour Briefing
- Plan B
- In Parliament
- Running London again
- Running as an independent
- The future?
- Obituary: Ronald Gray (1920-2008) by John Birks
(Founder and owner of The Hammersmith Bookshop)
- The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys? by Colin Challen MP
- Carlyle
- George W.
- Crony capitalism
- Harken
- America's game
- China
- Jeb's story
- Neil Bush
- Conclusions?
- The politics of the organic movement -- an overview by Philip Conford
- The 1930s and 40s: links to the radical Right
- The 1950s and 60s : a conservative stance?
- Schumacher
- The 1970s to the 21st century: from self-sufficiency to consumerism
- Current developments
- Conclusion: the politics of survival
- The electromagnetic world
- The View from the Bridge
- Maggie, Maggie, Maggie
The minds of bankers
- The end of the beginning?
- Credit where credit is due (1)
- Disinfo: an oldie but a goody
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- IRD reborn?
- We let him down
- Big pictures
- Sarko
- Credit where credit is due (2)
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- Saddam Hussein on Trial
The Trial of Saddam Hussein by Abdul Haq Al-Ani, reviewed by David MacGregor
- Author as participant
- World-historical figure
- Genocide Court as Ninth Circle of Hell
- Advert: Politics and Paranoia by Robin Ramsay
- Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web by Danny Weston
- The core
- The British connection
- Proliferation - from the cold war to Customs
- Operation Akin
- The cover-up begins
- Waiting for what?
- Libya and Peter Griffin
- Peter Griffin
- Butler on Khan
- ‘the Libyans blew up the Pakistanis’
- Re: by Terry Hanstock
- Dodgy dossiers
- Understanding intelligence
- Secret histories
- Happy families
- The Atomic Curtain
- Academic spooks
- Planning blight
- Countering terrorism
- It’s a conspiracy….
- David Kelly – more questions
- At the toss of a COIN (counterinsurgency)
- Books reviewed
- Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s by Always W. Turner, reviewed by Dan Atkinson
- British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 by Paul McMahon, reviewed by Richard Alexander
- Speaking for Myself by Cherie Blair, reviewed by John Newsinger
- JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters by James W. Douglass. reviewed by Michael Carlson
- The Spy who came in from the Co-op by David Burke
- The Gods that Failed: How blind faith in markets has cost us our future by Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson
- James Jesus Angleton: The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence by Michael Holzman
- From Thatcher to the Third Way: think-tanks, intellectuals and the Blair project by Robert Carl Blank
- The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History by Daniel Hopsicker
- Briefs:
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker by Alex Cox
- A People’s History of American Empire: a graphic adaptation by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle
52 pages.
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