A spook, moi? One of the formative experiences of my youth – and we’re talking early 1960s here, beatnik days, when wearing a narrow leather tie was pretty hip – was going to the Mound in Edinburgh on Sunday nights. The Mound is like Hyde Park Corner in London, a place where local by-laws allow […]
NB This essay has been compressed a good deal. The longer version is at < http://www.pertier.com/demos.html > Ostensibly a left-leaning ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been […]
Compromised Reporting Taking its cue from a powerful network of far-right radio commentators, the American press insists on noting only those financial scandals which don’t sully ultra-conservative politicians. Of either party. For example: Rush Limbaugh, who has become the Republican Party’s Goebbels, loudly applauded Clinton’s appointment of Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, an appalling Texas (Democrat) […]
Policing (a) and the miners 3 page overview in Labour Research (September) Officers being sent straight from training school (Guardian 20 November) Police installing alarms in homes of (some) working miners. (Guardian 27 November) Police officers being charged a ‘fee’ of a bottle of whisky to get on lucrative picket duty. (Daily Telegraph 25 October) […]
[…] say about him; he was a regular Cold Warrior who came in with a ‘missile gap’ threat, who was going to do a lot of the things Reagan has done – and the Kennedy who had been to the brink in the Cuban Missile Crisis and had had to think about what it really […]
[…] precis on events in Italy, Peru, Africa, Mozambique, Iran, the General Collins trial mentioned in Lobster 1, (which has never been followed up in the UK press), Reagan, Laxalt and organised crime, and Nicaragua. Subs. $20 per year, but how this converts to pounds sterling is an interesting question with the sterling/dollar/franc exchange rates […]
See Note (1) Introduction In The Wealth of Nations, a book supposed to underpin modern free-market philosophies, Adam Smith thought that the separation of management from ownership would inevitably gave rise to negligence and corruption. The owners of Enron were the shareholders, represented by pension funds, banks and trust funds. The chief managers of Enron […]
See also Part 1 in Lobster 5 United States Anna Anderson was not the only Anastasia claimant; her chief rival in the United States was Mrs Eugenia Smith. Smith’s claims, although considered shaky by the best scholars, were powerfully supported by the testimony of one Michael M. Goleniewski, who hailed from Poland yet claimed to […]
[…] ancient enemy and competing social organic heir to the mantle of Rome.’ Yes, it’s almost intelligible; but that’s only part of it. Try these for example. ‘Was Reagan a Catholic Hollywood/GE Asset via Gambino?’. (Back issue, Fall 88) Or this, from the Summer 1988 summary: ‘The Real Star Wars: a review of Stephen Hawking’s […]
[…] the Lobster 49, he wrote ‘no-one seems yet to have written the tale of how this post-war generation passed on its passions, beliefs and networks to the Reagan generation’. (page 4) In fact Russ Bellant did in his Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party: domestic fascist networks and their effect on […]
