Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[…] business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A bit of this is true: the BBC certainly supports the human rights culture and multiculturalism. But how could it […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

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[PDF file]: […] return.’116 * Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (South End […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

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[…] making spending decisions which are not the most materially beneficial or even harmful ) in the way people make economic decisions. For example, people smoke, drink, take drugs and overeat despite knowing they are spending money on that which has deleterious effects on their health. They bet even when they know it is very […]

Mexico missive

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for exploitation. Additionally, any ‘wall’ that might be raised along the remaining undefended southern border would play into the hands of the most organised and technically able drugs cartels. By this I mean the gangs that already have tunnels that run underneath the border at multiple urban locations all along the frontier.5 In the […]

The view from the bridge

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Swedish echoes

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Fire: My Own Story (London: W. H. Allen, 1989), an account by Captain Simon Hayward, late of Her Majesty’s Life Guards, of being caught up in a drugs bust in the city of Linköping in southern Sweden. In March of 1987 Captain Hayward was arrested when he was found to be driving a car […]

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