Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] peddle. Before 2008, Trump did virtually no business outside the USA. This was about to change. The word went out to ‘everywhere dirty money is gained and hidden’, that Trump’s services were available to ‘shine you up’ (p. 61). As Reuters reported in March 2017, no less than 63 individuals with Russian passports or […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] countries as threatened outposts of European civilisation defending their existence against barbarians at the gate.’ Sasha Polakow-Suransky is well placed to throw light on this still largely hidden history. With family roots in both South Africa and Israel, he worked up the book in what reads like a labour of love from his Oxford […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] executed in 1944 after the plot to kill Hitler. Most of his diaries were buried in the garden of his house in Ebenhausen, near Munich. Some were hidden in Switzerland. Von Hassell wrote in January 1941 that Carl Burckhardt of the Swiss Red Cross had ‘looked me up in Geneva’. Von Hassell noted in […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] in Britain has ever engaged in recent years in a serious debate on the ends or means of policy towards overseas investment’. This she attributed to ‘a hidden bias in the political, economic and indeed social system, towards overseas investment’. 1 5 In the 1950s and 60s the British state clung to the pretensions […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] NATO set up underground armies of resistance, ‘stay behind’ groups, to fight the red invaders – a secret paramilitary structure, co-ordinated through NATO HQ, which was kept hidden from most of Europe’s politicians and all of Europe’s citizens. This was Gladio. After the Soviet bloc disintegrated in the early 1990s these ‘secret armies’ were […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] invariably occur in difficult economic times, either at the very end of overheated boom or on the downturn. In boom times, incompetence and even fraud can be hidden by a company because confidence is high, money is plentiful and cheap and customers easy to find; legal regulation becomes lax and self-regulation next to nonexistent. […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] been the real target. Why would anyone want to murder a philosopher? The presumption has to be that the assassins believed the nickname ‘Putin’s Brain’ reflects a hidden political reality. As for the claim that Dugin is the World’s Most Dangerous Philosopher, this depends entirely on what one means by ‘World’. If one means […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] born deformed and immediately baptised as Christian but unexpectedly survived the antenatal period. His noble parents are said to have pretended Thomas had died, while keeping him hidden from view in a secret room within the walls of the family seat, Glamis Castle, Scotland. Various versions of the legend describe Thomas as ‘half-man, half-frog’, […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] . . terrorism attributed to Muslim extremists (“Islamic terror”). It is also about the incomparably greater violence of the state, both the state in general and its hidden hand in terrorism.’ Yes, the state has used ‘incomparably greater violence’ against Muslim countries than we have experienced in the UK. But has the state’s ‘hidden […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Vol. 66, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 40 Quoted in David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (London: Simon and Schuster, 2007) p. 275. 41 Recorded in 1947. 16 42 caught; you might respond, “Oh, you are giving […]