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[…] He well understands the US dimension to New Labour, with both Brown and Balls apparently learning their light-touch regulation from Larry Summers, one of those in the Clinton years keenest to abolish Glass-Steagall. He pays less 192 Summer 2010 attention to Israel among the offshore lobbies, but explains well the general vulnerability of these […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] writer and commentator, Jerome Corsi, who was for a while the Washington DC bureau chief for InfoWars. He even ‘hopped aboard Pizzagate’ and relentlessly went after Hilary Clinton. According to Corsi’s 2014 Hunting Hitler, Hitler’s escape was assisted by Allen Dulles, who had ‘recognized that National Socialism was the way of the future’ and […]

The Centre Must Hold: Why centrism is the answer to extremism and polarisation edited by Yair Zivan

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[PDF file]: […] from conflicting perspectives’. (p. 57) From the various contributions I detect, however, that the people best placed to do this may be regarded as ‘centre-left’, such as Clinton, Blair, Macron and Biden. But honours can occasionally go to non-left figures such as John Major, who was prepared to countenance contacts with the IRA prior […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] could join at some point in the future.12 However, Bush left office in January 1993 and under his two successors the position was transformed. In 1996 President Clinton openly advocated expanding NATO to include the members of the old Warsaw Pact. By 2005 Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, […]

The Colonel and I: My Life With Gaddafi by Daad Sharab

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for him. ‘By the end of 2009 I had three bulky dossiers in my briefcase – on my arduous visit to India; my productive dinner with Hilary Clinton; and the clandestine trip to Tel Aviv to meet Shimon Peres – to present to the Colonel.’ (p. 164) She never met the Colonel again. Ten […]

General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD.

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of his examination of Joseph A. Milteer and Willie Somersett; of Clay Shaw, Kerry Thornley and Gordon Novel; of General Walker’s life and times; and Oswald in Clinton, to mention but several. Years ago the Hollywood trade paper Variety would describe a brilliant failure as a flop d’estime, and it is a term that […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration (Simon and Schuster, 2019, p. 281). 3 A prolific writer, his publications include the influential The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, first published in 2006, but reissued in 2016. He has also published an avalanche of proTrump books: […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] It is only in Chapter 6, which looks at examples of factional conflict from the 1990s, that Raso commits to a clear position, claiming that both the Clinton and Trump Administrations were respectively targeted by the conservative and liberal oligarchical factions. Although, in the case of Trump, Raso stops short of directly accusing the […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

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[PDF file]: […] in December 1998 and MacShane records that according to No 10 special adviser Roger Liddle – later Baron Liddle – ‘Blair was far more gung ho than Clinton about bombing Iraq’. What surprised MacShane was that the targets ‘included the very centre of Baghdad’. He cannot have been that worried, however, because this entry […]

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