Treasury orthodoxy and sound money delusions (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the US was forced to abandon conversion of dollars to gold in 1971, oil producers in the Middle East coupled their distaste for the US support for Israel with a demand for higher prices for their oil. As events since the war in Ukraine began have shown, increases in energy costs feed through into […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] film the official version that all the shots came from behind Kennedy became an absurdity. After ‘the lobby’ films no-one can seriously deny the existence of the Israel lobby. The future of Britain’s crisis30 The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is a light veneer of accountability for the UK’s spooks to hide […]

Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for countering that. He chairs the watchdog Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA).21 But he also does some lobbying himself as chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel group in the House of Lords.22 Perhaps it was to Pickles and his ilk that Millett directed part of his closing statement: ‘True regret is not […]

Book reviews

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[…] 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 largely postmanufacturing islands to pressures and influences – some of them extending beyond his […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Godson, a former member of the Reagan administration, whose brother and father have also been key figures in US-UK relations. He also steers clear of the pro- Israel lobby which, to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it wasn’t worth trying at all. The idea of slowly developing your own deterrent, as and when funds are available (the approach followed by France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran(?)) doesn’t appear to have been entertained, with a radical short-termism preferred instead. countries, and, the death penalty is no longer in […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] restore Euro-American control over China’s economy.20 Whether relative sanity in the US or the extremism of the Lobby itself (in its day almost as powerful as the Israel lobby today) prevented outright war is a matter of dispute. The psychological impact of ‘losing China’ certainly enhanced the status of the emergent national security state […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with similar capitalised text in poor English. The one sent to Brokaw read as follows: 09-11-01 THIS IS NEXT TAKE PENACILIN NEXT DEATH TO AMERICA DEATH TO ISRAEL ALLAH IS GREAT But it quickly became clear that the sophistication of the identified Ames strain of anthrax in the letters meant it could only come […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: Scott Newton Nairn and Marx Tom Nairn, who died in January, was one of the most powerful and perceptive political theorists of our time. He was a Marxian whose writings often appeared in journals such as New Left Review and The London Review of Books, as well as in books such as The Break-Up of […]

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