Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for twelve hours a day. As we now know, that allowed Epstein to continue his assaults on young girls. Acosta went on to be Trump’s Secretary of Labour. Kendzior is incredulous that the allegation that Trump raped a thirteen year old girl who had been ‘forced to work’ for Epstein in 1994 was pretty […]

War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of the NuLab story, for it shows that the BlairBrown administrations really did believe that private is always better than public. (How they must have hated the Labour Party!) Yet it still astounds me to read an account of a Labour government casually handing over chunks of the British defence structure to American and […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

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[PDF file]: […] critiques of the current U.S. economic crisis – e.g. the Monthly Review. Professor Gilpin of Princeton, whose authority is recognised by such establishment audiences as the Senate Labour Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations, has persuasively challenged Jerry J. Berman and Morton H. Halperin (eds) The Abuses of the Intelligence Agencies (Washington, the […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now Lord) Kinnock and Labour without mentioning Robert Maxwell and of New Labour without reference to Michael (now Lord) Levy and Jon (now Lord) Mendelsohn is a serious omission. Some readers […]

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

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[PDF file]: […] but having received about 30% of the votes cast in the elections of 1974 and 76, they hardly had a mandate for revolution. But the little that Labour and the unions did deliver was too much for the the middle and upper classes. A more equal society means the prosperous lose more via taxation. […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

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[PDF file]: […] the German Army, denying that the German Generals had any responsibility for Nazi war crimes. Interestingly, von Manstein’s defence was led by a top British lawyer, the Labour MP Reginald Paget.1 Despite all this, von Manstein still got eighteen years for his crimes, but was released after four.2 As for occupied Germany, Kitson fondly […]

View from the bridge

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[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.17 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrant-friendly by downscaled 10 and outsourced whites.’ Substitute New Labour for Democrats . . . Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men,11 is a 10 11 Downloadable at . 4 Wallace, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] China. At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrantfriendly by downscaled and outsourced whites.’6 Substitute New Labour for Democrats….. Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men7 is a terrific account of the creation and effects of groupthink among […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] not to bomb Libya – which, in keeping with the Western concept of democracy, happened two days after the bombing had started – the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband (former Energy Secretary), informed Parliament: ‘We do not seek commercial gain or geopolitical advantage, and we are not intending to occupy Libya or […]

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