Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] correction is shifting power in one great lurch to the East. The bad bet This gamble on US leadership was built on faith not on facts. When Clinton sent cruise missiles into Sudan and Afghanistan, it was an action predicated on the widespread understanding that US firepower was so massive that no-one would attract […]

The Crux of the Matter

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Some of the more well-known names of Fronteras’ Board members are: Chairman William H. White (ex Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton); President/CEO Steve Nicandros (ex-Pres. Conoco International Operations); and Advisers John Deutch (ex-CIA Director) and Lloyd Bentsen (ex-Treasury Secretary.). ‘A coup attempt in 1998 led the chairman […]

Blairusconi: populism and elite rule

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] New Labour agree on several key facts. First, that Tony Blair has transformed the Labour party unrecognisably. Second, that much of this has been modelled on the Clinton experience, and third that he has created a new model of centrism and apparent fiscal prudence. Yet from 2001 on we can see a parallel phenomenon […]

Demos

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] in an effort to ‘modernise’. From 1990-92 Mulgan was special adviser to Gordon Brown when he was shadowing the Department of Trade and Industry, and became ‘the Clinton campaign’s link to Labour, which involved lots of telephone calls with the Americans – mainly advising them how not to repeat our mistakes.'(3) Demos aimed to […]

The JFK literature: some recent titles

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] ‘Whitewatergate’ material he has been unflaggingly pushing through The Sunday Telegraph since 1993. The ‘slanders’ are here documented month by month. Evans-Pritchard is obviously out to unseat Clinton and, failing that, cause him as much embarrassment as possible. But where was E-P and the Telegraph when we really needed them, during the scandalous years […]

What Price National Security?

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] of continuing threats to erode the First Amendment in the US, particularly recent legislation, , which would have provided greater powers to prosecute whistle-blowers. Although vetoed by Clinton, it could be revived. In the UK, only a week earlier, the government had thrown out an attempt to prosecute Colonel Nigel Wylde under the Official […]

A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] Command (the successor to Strategic Air Command which includes ballistic missile submarines) were ‘in the early stages of building and testing computer models that could enable Mr Clinton to aim nuclear weapons at third world nations that threaten the interests of the United States or its allies’. (17) The transition from massive nuclear targeting […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] to the presence of oil in the Sudan.For a detailed account of recent events in the Sudan see The European-Sudanese Public Affairs council pamphlet, Farce Majeure: the Clinton Administration’s Sudan Policy by David Hoile (ISBN 1-903545-00-5). Readers with long memories will recognise Hoile as former young activist on the radical right of the early […]

Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] the FBI wants the same thing. Not to be outdone, the NSA played the major role in the development of the ‘Clipper Chip’ recently approved by President Clinton, and soon the government will start requiring industry to provide phones and computers equipped with it. This chip contains encryption algorithms that can be broken by […]

MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] quotation from the faintly mysterious and spooky Dr. C. B. Scott Jones. In 1994 Scott Jones had meetings with Dr. John Gibbons, the scientific advisor to President Clinton, at which various bits of evidence about UFOs were presented to Gibbons.(3) On 17 February 1994 Scott Jones wrote to Gibbons, …I urge you to take […]

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