Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation
Andrew Rosthorn Jimmy Savile ‘moral panic’ tracked on computer in Dordogne Social scientists studying mass-media fantasies known as ‘moral panics’ have reported on an archive of internet traffic that reveals the social media origins of the Jimmy Savile scandal. This revelation was in the International Journal of Sociology […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted
(and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] how it was that working-class revolutionaries like Pollitt and Marxist intellectuals like Klugmann became apologists and serial liars for it. Having joined the CP in response to Hitler taking power in Germany in 1933, how on earth did Klugmann explain away, justify to himself, Stalin’s alliance with the Nazis in 1939? According to Andrews, […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks Nick Must In a previous article for Lobster,1 I discussed the planning that took place during the Second World War to establish a staybehind network in case the Axis powers invaded Great Britain. Thus far my coverage of the subject has extended only to the […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] a 85 known fraudster with a personal grudge against Hussein. If the US didn’t need him, why bother using him at all? It’s often remarked that if Hitler hadn’t been born, some other scheming despot would have risen in his place, with much the same results. This notion ignores the plain fact that if […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: Right-Wing Zionism and Donald Trump Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel David Rubin Shiloh Israel Press, 2021 https://www.shilohisraelchildren.org/about-us/shiloh-israel-press/ John Newsinger In 2010, David Rubin published his The Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama. The book came with powerful recommendations from, among others, David Horowitz and Pat Robertson. According to […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] years. His publications range from The Feminist Movement in Germany 1894-1933 (1976), to The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History (1988), to Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial (2002) and on to his three volume history of the Third Reich: The Coming of the Third Reich […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] sent to Schloss Friedrichshof, Hesse, in the very final days of the war in order to retrieve the minutes of the Duke of Windsor’s 1936 meeting with Hitler, which were indeed found to be missing from the relevant documents after they were seized by Allied forces and returned to Britain. Now historian Professor Roland […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] of the casualties incurred in the Dower notes that some of the European scientists, who had assumed that they were working on a scheme that would thwart Hitler building the first atomic weapons, were dismayed by the steady drift of the Manhattan Project toward an anti-Soviet outcome. It is interesting to consider at what […]