Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] give up all this nonsense about economic independence (let alone socialism).6 1 John Smith, another ‘moderniser’ in the Labour leadership, was on the steering committee of the Bilderberg group, one of the key elite forums promoting globalisation, from 1989 to 1992.6 2 In June 1991 Smith took his then understudy, Gordon Brown, to the […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] and women, both groups being ‘notoriously tough for libertarians’. Instead, he avoids conventional politics, creating his ideal society via cyberspace. Thiel, a German-American and member of the Bilderberg Group Steering Committee, was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011.8 Collectively, the billionaires and their assorted fellow-travellers justify their ‘mind-set’ via an intellectual – some might […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: *reformatted early 2026* Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites Robin Ramsay In footnote 6 in his essay on the Bilderberg group in Lobster 32, Mike Peters noted that the US Left had lost interest in the study of the power elite because the subject had become ‘contaminated’ by the interest in it […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] together from resources on-line. The author is apparently unaware that the left had already covered some of this over 30 years ago.1 There is a chapter on Bilderberg, which began as an issue for the right in the 1970s and was then briefly of interest to the American left.2 But this chapter on Bilderberg […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] They meet at global events such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Trilateral Commission or – for the crème de la crème – the Bilderberg meetings or the Bohemian Grove seminars that take place every July in California.’ The financial analysts Bloomberg offered its columnist David Reilly’s comments on some of […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] (International Bank); Thomas McKittrick (Chase National Bank); and two of Jackson’s fellow Time Inc, executives, John Jessup and Charles Stillman. Given Jackson’s role in establishing the annual Bilderberg conference, one has to wonder about attitudes to psychological warfare among members of the Bilderberg steering committee. 10 4 Luce empire was a harmonious one. ‘I […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] and a lefty, though of what particular stripe I’m not sure (tendence Groucho, perhaps.) We only met a handful of times.8 He wrote the seminal article about Bilderberg for Lobster 32. Nothing better has appeared since. That essay is behind our tiny pay wall (which pays for this site) but a version is on-line […]