David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for eight days work and the venture capital outfit, Vantage Point, paid him £92,000 for four and a half days work. He seemed to be the classic Blair clone, busy enriching himself while supposedly representing a poor working class area, creating that interesting New Labour phenomenon whereby the local Labour MP is one of […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] Criminal Court (ICC). Invading Iraq caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. To date the ICC has not issued arrest warrants for George Bush, Dick Cheney or Tony Blair. Had it done so, the world might have taken its action about Putin more seriously. ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in January 2020, flags were flown at half-mast on public buildings in Britain, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Johnson flew out to attend the funeral and Tony Blair praised the dead tyrant as one of the wisest, most generous men of modern times, a veritable paragon. Such was, and is, the value placed on […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] New Labour. He’s travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] Criminal Court (ICC). Invading Iraq caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. To date the ICC has not issued arrest warrants for George Bush, Dick Cheney or Tony Blair. Had it done so, the world might have taken its action about Putin more seriously. ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] the real democratic practice of international law and a new Zeitgeist united. Addendum The recently sacked (likely a neocon manoeuvre) ex-director of national intelligence, retired Admiral Dennis Blair, told Congress in February last year, that the world-wide economic crisis is the single greatest threat to the national security of the United States, trumping even […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] New Labour. He’s travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Robert Henderson, who had Special Branch sicced on him and then was the subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the way the media had treated him.1 1 Leveson did not call him to testify. (No […]

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[…] Criminal Court (ICC). Invading Iraq caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. To date the ICC has not issued arrest warrants for George Bush, Dick Cheney or Tony Blair. Had it done so, the world might have taken its action about Putin more seriously. ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The […]

Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how […]

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