Just War: Psychology and Terrorism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] of the British Medical Association which has.(22) Julie Lloyd and Steve Potter contribute an essay on Cognitive Analytic Therapy and use it to analyse the speeches of Blair and Bush. They show that Bush, Blair (or their speechwriters, more likely) use language to present their case in the best possible light and play on […]

Rich Britain: The rise and rise of the new super-wealthy

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] the old money of the landed aristocracy is still very much part of this picture as is the more recently accumulated wealth of those whose company Tony Blair seems to enjoy. Indeed part of Lansley’s indignation at the growing inequality in Britain is directed at New Labour’s support and encouragement for it – and […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] I guess, steal – every last barrel of oil on earth to keep its cars and its air-conditioning units running. Even though everyone – everyone bar Tony Blair, it seems – knows it’s about oil, throughout the summer and autumn the media was saturated with stories about about Saddam Hussein, Iraq, its weapons and […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] AGENTS IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY. RUN FROM FLAT IN EXHIBITION RD, SOUTH KENSINGTON 1952-84 AUTHOR JOHN BINGHAM SPY/THRILLERS WIFE, MADELEINE, INTELL WWII, AUTOBIOGRAPHY BARRED BY D-NOTICE COMMITTEE BLAIR, CHARLES NEIL MOLESWORTH CMG (1962) OBE (48) B 22.10.10 ARMY AND NAVY MI6 (W) 1939 BLACKWATCH EUROPE N AFRICA, SICILY 1941 INSTRUCTOR ARMY STAFF COLL 1943 […]

Reflections On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder – a prof with a Kashalnikov! Notes 1 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown believe in the fairy story Uncle Sam. They really do. This is what makes them so useful to the Americans. They didn’t have […]

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] was scheduled to meet with the Royal family on the weekend following the crash. Up for discussion is the future of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Mr Blair is determined to hammer out an agreement which will protect the monarchy. A Labour insider said: “This will be the ultimate pow-wow. The issue can not […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] as to why the USA empowered the KLA to take over Kosovo. How the U.S. Restored Narco-Barons to Power in Afghanistan, 2001 It is clear that the Blair and Bush Administrations did have drugs in mind when in 2001 they developed a strategy for ousting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Their plans focused chiefly on […]

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] office, came from Jewish businessmen. Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. (2) Is it really of no […]

Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] 1993) pp. 59-70; Mark Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power (London:, Zed Books, 1995) pp. 10-28. 3 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 140) 4 Richard Kisch, The Private Life of Public Relations (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964) p. 163 5 Ibid. 6 Lindsey Jenkins, […]

The Washing Machine: how money laundering and terrorist financing soil us

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] on huge cash injections. Kochan also tells us that laundered money – in this case from the former dictator of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha – helped Tony Blair get New Labour off the ground. “The British Financial Services Authority conducted its own investigation of British banks’ involvement in the Abacha scandal and unearthed one […]

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