Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby 1 Matthew Zarb-Cousin In his 1956 book The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills illustrated the way in which the elite work together, are interconnected – both socially and in business – and therefore take each other into account when they make decisions….. Rupert Murdoch and the financial sector […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Details of the tax agency’s remarkable leniency emerged in 1964 hearings held by a subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Small Business, chaired by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, to study the impact on the U.S. economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts. The subcommittee’s study director, H. A. Olsher, struggled to deal with […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[PDF file]: […] a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ which climaxed with ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright. In his affidavit to the court in Australia where the British government was trying to suppress his book Wright wrote, ‘The present state of Britain is […]