Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Monbiot have a solution? He does. This is his second last paragraph and his answer is the last word in it. ‘One of the answers to Trump, Putin, Orbán, Erdogan, Salvini, Duterte, Le Pen, Farage and the politics they represent is to rescue democracy from transnational corporations. It is to defend the crucial political […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: Floating around The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange Nick Must At one of the recent hearings related to Julian Assange’s possible extradition to the U.S., the lead barrister for the defence made the ‘extraordinary claim’ that, in August of 2017, President Donald Trump had offered an amnesty to the Wikileaks founder.1 This offer […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] also involved in trying to secure alternative funding for Marine Le Pen’s Front National. He proposed they replace their Russian backers – ‘Russian gangsters likely fronting for Putin’, who had loaned the party $13 million – with ‘right-wing Jews and supporters of Israel’. (pp. 162-163) The Russian involvement with the European Far Right is […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: ‘Crazytown’ John Newsinger Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 The Shadow President: The Truth about Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 Bob […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’ Dr. T. P. Wilkinson A century ago, a Southern academic and racist emerged in Europe and the United States as a crusader to ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year before Europe’s […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Reagan administration’s supply-side revolution in economics (in which he played a substantial part). He also devotes twenty pages to a long Q and A session with Vladimir Putin; one of his columns is actually headed ‘Vladimir Putin is the leader of the moral world’. But it is America’s foreign policy, 1 Details from his […]