Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it was ever seriously weakened, the power of […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] have an ‘insidious agenda that is demonic to its core’. George Soros is, inevitably, ‘the undisputed ringleader of this globalist cabal’. (p. 118). In this universe, Hillary Clinton is inevitably cast as ‘Jezebel’! (p. 132) And, of course, Trump has also taken a stand against the ‘environmental extremists’ with their fake warnings of global […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was accepted by almost everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats ( Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] It is only in Chapter 6, which looks at examples of factional conflict from the 1990s, that Raso commits to a clear position, claiming that both the Clinton and Trump Administrations were respectively targeted by the conservative and liberal oligarchical factions. Although, in the case of Trump, Raso stops short of directly accusing the […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] formulation in 2002. He was the author of The Right Man, a staunch defence of the Bush administration, published in 2003. In 2016, he voted for Hillary Clinton! Frum recognises that Trump did not come out of the blue, but was someone who took advantage of the way American politics was ‘veering toward extremism […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] no interest in the economy – as far as I know, he had no economic knowledge at all – and left it all to Brown. Copying the Clinton Democrats of the 1990s, Brown believed that Britain’s future lay in the financial services, the so-called knowledge economy and immigrants who would do the shitwork the […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in December 1998 and MacShane records that according to No 10 special adviser Roger Liddle – later Baron Liddle – ‘Blair was far more gung ho than Clinton about bombing Iraq’. What surprised MacShane was that the targets ‘included the very centre of Baghdad’. He cannot have been that worried, however, because this entry […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

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[PDF file]: […] 78) And, while this real episode of paedophile rape and underage sex trafficking was taking place, the story being pushed by unofficial Republican sources was that Hillary Clinton was operating a paedophile ring, raping, murdering and eating children as part of a Satanic conspiracy to bring down America. The result was ‘Pizzagate’! This is […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] very president since Reagan has been obliged to follow the tone set by the country’s terrorist-in-chief. George Bush Sr and George W Bush as well as William Clinton were integral parts of the Reagan tradition – liberal fantasies to the contrary not withstanding. In 2008, the ultimate synthetic president was elected, Barack Obama, a […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] colour for the Chinese. These days dresses not tiaras speak to empires. And, giving one of her keynote speeches on the Middle East, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wearing a two-strand green necklace, an important colour in Islam. 24 Newsnight BBC 2, 22 February 2011 Development of SIS novelists T he SIS has also […]

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