Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] murderous brutality from any party spokesmen or women. This shameful reality makes Michela Wrong’s book all the more important. It is a brave and powerful indictment that deserves urgent reading. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. 6

View from Bridge copy

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[…] as was).54 Taibbi wrote: Groups like the CCDH often paralyze left-leaning political figures and media commentators by making them afraid to be lumped in with anti-vaxxers or Trump supporters. Only a few sharp reporters like Branko Marcetic of Jacobin, have had the vision to understand that ‘They’ll come for us next.’ In other words, […]

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

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[PDF file]: […] EU (including, for now, the UK, whose support for boosting NATO’s presence in Eastern Europe would ‘only pour fuel on an already raging fire’8). The election of Trump to the US Presidency, with his support for protectionism and greater interest in hemispheric than in European affairs, post-dated publication of Sakwa’s book. It may have […]

The view from the bridge

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Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

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[PDF file]: […] chronicle of failure. Macklin does not really deal with this, nevertheless his book is a still a tremendous achievement that everyone interested in British Fascism needs to read. * John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. 7 8

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] the fact is ‘that there was a sizeable audience in the US for a song extolling mass murder’. (pp. 224-225) Presumably this did not perturb the FBI in the slightest. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. 6

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

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[PDF file]: […] decide for ourselves how far we trust MacShane, but as far as this reader is concerned it is somewhere between not a lot and not at all. * John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. or 4 6

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the Assange smears’ 10 is very good. Not a million miles away is the question: did Assange/Wikileaks leak the material from the Democratic National Committee to the Trump campaign? Everyone and their cousin seems to take it or granted that they did. Notable dissenters from this view are Craig Murray and, more significantly, the […]

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[…] as was).36 Taibbi wrote: Groups like the CCDH often paralyze left-leaning political figures and media commentators by making them afraid to be lumped in with anti-vaxxers or Trump supporters. Only a few sharp reporters like Branko Marcetic of Jacobin, have had the vision to understand that ‘They’ll come for us next.’ In other words, […]

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