Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] it clear it reserved the right to act independently. Traditionally regarding anything ‘China’ as their preserve, they considered Eden naïve (at best), the Emperor Bao a clear Communist stooge and Ho Chi Minh a ruthless conspirator controlled by Moscow. Within a few years, with the US actively promoting dissent and opposing anything less than […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] disappointed. Up to the mid-1950s the US intelligence services had gathered very little reliable information on the activities of their Soviet bloc intelligence opponents. Then an anti- communist intelligence officer, Michal Goleniewski, working with Polish intelligence, began leaking them information. Code-named ‘Sniper’ by the CIA, he was by far the most important source the […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Talbott, The Russia Hand (New York: Random House, 2002) 31 Y. Brudny, ‘In Pursuit of the Russian Presidency: Why and How Yeltsin Won the 1996 Presidential Election’, Communist and PostCommunist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 255-275, 1997. 32 Aleksei Sanaev, ‘Vybory V Rossii: Kak eto Delaetsia’, Os’-89, 2005, p. 8, quoted in ‘Russia: […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] equivalents are working for their country. The murder of a British businessman who worked in China and was associated with the now disgraced Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party chief of Chongqing who was once tipped for high office, was characterised by systematic British media undermining of the dead man’s character (presumably because it […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] case that JFK wanted to withdraw all U.S. military personnel as soon as was feasible, but that JFK had no intention of abandoning South Vietnam to a Communist takeover on his watch. And, yes, JFK was prepared to continue economic and military aid for many years. This will not be the last word on […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Marx’s second blind spot was failure to appreciate the power and significance of nationalism. His and Engels’ call for workers of the world to unite in The Communist Manifesto was based on the conviction that, even by the late 1840s, the international expansion of capitalism including the working class without which it could not […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] 15 16 Ligia Amancio ‘Trump e o pós-politicamente correcto’, Publico, 27 January 2017, p. 47 views with which they cannot agree. Nazis and the now largely defunct communist parties of what was once called the Soviet bloc are the only ones whose use of language was supposedly deceptive or simply dishonest. In what was […]