The view from the bridge

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[…] . or 58 59 See or . 60 into the mainstream media until Hammond’s striking intervention.61 Simkin closes his essay with a quote from Hannah Arendt about Nazi Germany which is chillingly apt for today’s world in which shysters like Trump and Johnson have ascended the greasy pole. ‘In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] he referred to a panel chaired by one Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs from 2001-2009. Dobriansky, wrote Kuzmarov, is ‘the daughter of an ally of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera’. or 69 Some of the original documents involved have been declassified and can be seen at or 70 22 Stealing the 2020 presidential […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for the very weird prisoner introduced as Rudolf Hess, at his insistence standing up and without pain killing injection. Later I had access to the full official Nazi party medical records for the real Rudolf Hess, going back to his gunshot wounds in WW1. They showed that he had lost his upper left molar […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

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[PDF file]: […] New Capitalist Order, Towards A New Society, Toward A New Multilateralism. (I wonder if Stiglitz is aware of how closely these echo in tone the fascist and Nazi slogans of the 1930s?) What form would this Stiglitzian global regulation take? He would require nation-states to effectively subcontract the economic management of their country to […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

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[PDF file]: […] old schisms created by Henry VIII (Protestantism vs Catholicism), and the triumphalist religious right-wing forces in America (who escaped from Old Europe). This is dangerous territory, with Nazi echoes of Blood and Honour being deeply embedded in the culture. It is no coincidence that the EU was specifically designed to move away from such […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

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[PDF file]: […] in January 1941. Although the USA was not then a belligerent, Roosevelt was keen to help the struggle of British Commonwealth and Empire and Allied forces against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, notwithstanding the existence of pro-neutrality legislation which limited what his administration could do to help. Already, in 1940 the US had provided […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] feel like just another synthesis of the extant material. Cox’s narrative structure and his frequently unusual choices from the mountains of available data – the America neo- nazi and segregationist right get more attention than usual, for example – make it feel fresh. And because he is discussing events leading up to the shootings, […]

GArrick Timmi text

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Garrick Alder His name is Olaf Neitsch, and he was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] BBC from 1970, he reported for and then produced Panorama. He hit his stride in 1981 with Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, an account of how, post-1945, various German war criminals were allowed to remain in situ and even flourish with the connivance of the UK and […]

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