lob86View from Bridge

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[…] his relationship with the notorious Roger Stone. According to Morrow, he wrote most of two of Stone’s books, The Clintons’ War on Women, the attack on Hilary Clinton they co-authored, and Stone’s version of the LBJ-dunnit thesis, The Man Who Killed Kennedy.17 The fact that Stone has apparently stiffed him over royalty payments may […]

Bilderbergers head the EU, NATO, the IMF and the UN

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] and the WTO (Renato Ruggiero, Pascal Lamy). The then member of Bilderberg Group’s steering committee, Vernon Jordan, secured an invitation to Bilderberg conference in 1991 for Bill Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, and introduced him as ‘the next President of the United States’.10 And in 1995, as Jordan wanted, President Clinton installed Wolfensohn into […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] dodgy balloting put George W. in the White House in 2000, leading many to cry ‘foul!’ As the Financial Times recently observed, the prospect of a Bush/ Clinton race in next year’s presidential will mean that two families have effectively run the USA for just under 40 years (including George Bush Snr’s vice-presidency and […]

Kantor – Bilderbergers – 89

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[…] and the WTO (Renato Ruggiero, Pascal Lamy). The then member of Bilderberg Group’s steering committee, Vernon Jordan, secured an invitation to Bilderberg conference in 1991 for Bill Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, and introduced him as ‘the next President of the United States’.10 And in 1995, as Jordan wanted, President Clinton installed Wolfensohn into […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] although important, role. In the end, Blair lacked the nerve to call a vote. Mr Turner is acute in his observations of the Labour leader: ‘Unlike Bill Clinton, he was not a charismatic figure, but had learnt the trick of behaving as if he were.’ As for comparisons between Blair and Thatcher, there was […]

Misc reviews

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Misc reviews These reviews of mine were written for other publications. Robin Ramsay Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011, £20.00, h/b. After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and reexamining the previous inquiries, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] magazine could describe him as the fourth most powerful man in the United States. He was, at this time, a pillar of the neo-con opposition to Bill Clinton. Murdoch established the neo-con Weekly Standard with a start-up cost of $3 million in 1995. Edited by William Kristol, it became ‘the flagship of the neo-cons’, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]

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