Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] hegemony by the rise of China as an economic and military power. The development has come to be seen in US think tanks as well as the Pentagon as a ‘Thucydides trap’. The author of this expression was the political scientist Graham T. Allison, who quoted a passage from the History of the Peloponnesian […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] daily basis child labor, debt slavery, human rights atrocities (particularly by US client nations), white collar-crime, environmental crises involving nuclear or agricultural waste, military contracting corruption (the Pentagon by now cannot account for over six trillion dollars in spending), corporate tax evasion and dozens of other topics’. (p. 84) He returns to this point […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] is almost no evidence. The best that can be established is that JFK wanted to cool the Cold War and spend less of America’s taxes on the Pentagon and its satellite corporations. Beyond that all we have are wisps of stuff, chiefly Timothy Leary’s account of what Meyer said to him about JFK, upon […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] years since I did so. However there was a very interesting essay on changing styles in British political policing on 19 ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at . 20 21 22 8 Against that background, the then Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard Dannatt, told me […]