Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] dollar. (2) The seventh largest company in the US, supposedly dominating its market and generating handsome returns, in reality had generated a debt mountain. The debt was hidden in 2000-3000 offshore partnerships set up and managed with thousands of as yet unknown partners. Fastow and Skilling made yet more millions from this. The more […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] existence, it was swiftly transferred to the Philippines. Why the Philippines was chosen is not exactly clear, but it was also the location of Japanese war plunder hidden there by an organisation known as ‘The Golden Lily’, a covert agency of the Japanese government with its headquarters in Manila. Other substantial amounts of loot […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] the best books on the UK’s intelligence services, up there with Stephen Dorril’s MI6 book, Paul Lashmar and James Oliver’s book on IRD and Richard Aldrich’s The Hidden Hand. Rereading it, I was struck by the following. Although we now know quite a lot about MI5’s recent history, almost none of it has come […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] the Bush family should be gift-wrapped in the crap he bequeathed. Some of the entanglements of the Bush family have been presented as a conspiracy – a hidden and mysterious plot at the apparent centre of which lies the Bush alma mater Yale University’s Skull and Bones society – a variation on the Masonic […]