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[…] body Le Cercle’. Van Vuuren mentioned a Le Cercle meeting in 1984 which addressed the serious threat of infiltration of socialist parties of Europe and elsewhere by communist agents. There was talk of left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. A year and half later Palme was assassinated. But so what? Does Nicholson want us […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] over the requirements of material sustenance and the drudgery of mindless wage work’.11 It was a vision which bore some striking similarities to Marx’s vision of a Communist society, where ‘society regulates the general production’ and scarcity would cease to 7 See his ‘A Short View of Russia’ in The Essential Keynes (see note […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Freedom. He was also cosy with the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and, to round off his catholic enthusiasms, was convinced there was a big Jewish/ Communist conspiracy. On 9 November 1963 Willie Somersett (a name straight out of James Ellroy), a professional police informant and childhood friend of Milteer, met with him […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] efforts of a third Republican, the conservative commentator and former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson.3 And what in ‘voodoo history’ – the phrase is that of former Communist and Murdoch columnist David Aaronovitch – has brought this trio together? The events of September 11 2001. 4 When the three Manhattan towers came down almost […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] important for the United States to put a stop to drug trafficking by some Central American leaders than it was to support them because they were anti- communist.’ 7 violations and relished exposing the hypocrisy of the Reagan administration’s war on drugs. Senators Kerry and Helms were ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations […]

Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon and the growth of dual use anthropology by David H. Price

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] body Le Cercle’. Van Vurren mentioned a Le Cercle meeting in 1984 which discussed the serious threat of infiltration of socialist parties in Europe and elsewhere by communist agents. There was talk of left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. A year and half later Palme was assassinated. But so what? Does Nicholson want us […]

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