Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] get good results from the public sector (those who live by targets die by targets). Whatever it takes became their unspoken credo; be it encouraging blatant statistical fraud or the destruction of the so-called British constitution. (And what, thinks NuLab, are airy-fairy civil liberties? Who cares about a few climate change weirdoes getting their […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] of research and has documented much of this. It is one thing to presume that Britain’s so-called decolonisation of its empire in the post-war years was a fraud, designed to leave former colonies with ‘friendly’ governments, and the mass of the population getting screwed as before; or to presume that the ‘Soviet threat’ after […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] Collum and Sample. 5 For first degree murder he got a five year suspended sentence, after being defended by one of LBJ’s lawyers. 6 The unravelling Estes fraud was one of three corruption scandals which were gathering around Johnson in 1963 and which evaporated when he became president. The other big one concerned the […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] remains a fan of privatisation, who really believes all the guff about competition producing efficiency, this would be the book to offer them. It always looked like fraud and theft and this is demonstrated by the authors. This is a deeply depressing book. Not because there are horrible revelations in it, but because of […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] deliberate disinformation.(7) To know Bill Clinton and die? There is an extraordinary 1994 pamphlet by the editor of something called The Wall Street Underground, titled Murder, Bank Fraud, Drugs and Sex, that links 21 deaths to Clinton and Arkansas.(8) My faith in the author, Nicholas A. Guarino, is not heightened by the bizarre autobiographical […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
US bioweapons in Korea? In Lobster 44, p. 27, I noted the ongoing controversy about the alleged use of biological weapons by the United States during the Korean War: material from Soviet archives appeared to show that the ‘evidence’ of said biological weapons had been faked to embarrass the Americans; but this ‘evidence’ has since … Read more
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] Marxists may protest the lack of demonstrated understanding of authentic Marxist ideas in the treatment of soviet Russia and the lack of distancing thereof from the world-historical fraud of Socialism In One Country. The early philosophical works of Marx, for example, stem from the radical Enlightenment and remained unpublished ‘til the 1930s. The categories […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] of the ‘bit at the back’ of Private Eye written by Paul Foot, may remember a couple of pieces about EU whistle-blower, Dougal Watt. Watt’s story of fraud, corruption, cover-up and Masonry is too complex to summarise here but can be read in more detail at , < www.thesprout.net/004/graft/graft12.htm > and < www.justresponse.net /DougalWatt3Sep02.html […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] He led an investigation code-named Operation Akin, part of which was unravelling Siddiqui’s dealings with the network. He was part of a counter-proliferation team within Customs’ Commercial Fraud Branch. (Amin had previously taken part in investigations of mercenary Tim Spicer and co.(16)) Amin travelled to Dubai in April 2000 to further investigate some of […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] madness Brady’s suspension set a precedent, and at a Directorate meeting held on 3 May 1986, 23 charges against Ian Anderson were discussed, ranging from intimidation to fraud. Anderson had kept a low profile for a few months, and the timing of the disciplinary procedures appeared to connote a deeper agenda, along the lines […]
