Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] 15 16 Ligia Amancio ‘Trump e o pós-politicamente correcto’, Publico, 27 January 2017, p. 47 views with which they cannot agree. Nazis and the now largely defunct communist parties of what was once called the Soviet bloc are the only ones whose use of language was supposedly deceptive or simply dishonest. In what was […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] across the world and at home. Book publishing, art, psychiatry, academia, student organisations, political parties, newspapers, magazines, charities and motion pictures were all incorporated into this anti- Communist crusade.1 And so was anthropology.2 In the first half of his book Professor Price assembles what is now known of the CIA’s (and the Pentagon’s) activities […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] murders. Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti- communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] 75 (GB75), an organisation intended to fight the threat from the Left and ready to organise strike-breaking if and when there was a General Strike and attempted Communist takeover. The intention was to have a volunteer force ready in place throughout the country that would be able to keep ‘essential services’ running and help […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] American actions against Cuba, Che’s death and the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Brazil. The CIA’s people in the literary field believed they were promoting the non- communist left (NCL to use the Agency acronym), and nobbling those deemed to be too comm-symp (such as Neruda), with material aimed at the actual and potentially […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] of NuLab at the top of greasy pole in 1997 was just business as usual. Since the early 1950s America had programmes to talent-spot throughout the non- communist world and promote the rising politicians it thought would support its interests. That Uncle Sam would do this here isn’t surprising: this island was its most […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] portrayed all the important mythic roles the republic had to offer in the 20th century: scientist, athlete, army officer (ironically George A. Custer), New Dealer, unionist, anti- communist, and spokesman for a variety of corporate interests, mainly the General Electric trust. He became rich from speculation when real estate was being expropriated from Japanese-Americans […]