View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.23 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later claimed that he had made tape recordings of his conversations with various people involved and that it was the threat […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.10 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later claimed that he had made tape recordings of his conversations with various people involved and that it was the threat […]

Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967, edited by Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] and the erosion of civil rights; greater politicisation of the justice system; the hollowing out of the traditional media; and then the Great Financial Crisis, endemic banking fraud and austerity. You couldn’t have designed an environment more amenable to the conspiratorial memes of the far right: the UK’s recent experience could easily be framed […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] numbers rough sleeping, schools, Oxbridge research, medical stats, school league tables, poverty, hospital waiting lists, street crime, ambulance response times, doctors’ working hours, unemployment figures and welfare fraud figures. I’m sure you know of other examples. So why could the political system – the politicians – not admit that the neocon ideas had failed? […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] peace loving – war making; and replete with crime, double standards and hypocrisy in the ‘too big to fail and too big to jail’ systemic world financial fraud, and so on. Its ideological cover is wearing increasingly thin. The U.S. is fast becoming an ideological phantom! And the Orwellian doublethink laden in U.S. ruling […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] who had been fighting against the Soviet occupiers since 1979. In an earlier article, the same reporters had stated that the covert funding program was riddled with fraud and that only about 30% of the Congressionally approved money was actually reaching the fighters.24 The very opening paragraph of the first chapter of veteran journalist […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] numbers rough sleeping, schools, Oxbridge research, medical stats, school league tables, poverty, hospital waiting lists, street crime, ambulance response times, doctors’ working hours, unemployment figures and welfare fraud figures. I’m sure you know of other examples. So why could the political system – the politicians – not admit that the neocon ideas had failed? […]

The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Crown House, Emcor, which owns Drake and Scull, and Balfour Beatty, owner of Haden Young, say they do not condone or use blacklists. After raising concerns about fraud, but disillusioned with the company’s response, Wainwright left Haden Young in 2 The Guardian 27 May 2009 3 The Guardian June 28, 2008. Page 43 Winter […]

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