The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] historically as well in philosophically, this is a bracing warm-up class for the overdue heavy lifting this country’s politics badly needs. Like The Return of the Public Mind, the latest book from Chris Hedges is well footnoted and indexed. Hedges has covered wars around the world, is a columnist for Truthdig.com and a widely […]

The rule of the tech lords

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] time that he was seeking ‘a $50 billion pay package’ for himself. Even more important, as far as Musk was concerned, was the fight against ‘the woke mind virus’ that was threatening his world, a fight that became an obsession. To this end, he bought Twitter, rallied behind Trump’s 2024 election campaign and gave […]

Newsinger The Rule of the Tech Lords

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[…] time that he was seeking ‘a $50 billion pay package’ for himself. Even more important, as far as Musk was concerned, was the fight against ‘the woke mind virus’ that was threatening his world, a fight that became an obsession. To this end, he bought Twitter, rallied behind Trump’s 2024 election campaign and gave […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] I don’t know what she is talking about but we get the picture: like Ussher, Smith thinks she knows which butts need to be kissed and doesn’t mind saying so. If you copy America, you get…..America W ill Hutton described Prime Minister Cameron’s December vetoing of the proposed revision of the Lisbon Treaty in […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] cack-handed notions of Elon Musk, Steve Bannon and others, and look to elected, accountable, governments to secure a better future. Simon Matthews’ new book – Free Your Mind! Giovanni “Tinto” Brass, “Swinging London” and the 60s Pop Culture Scene – will be published by Oldcastle Books in April. See . As with Thiel and […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

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[…] Gottlieb Sidney Gottlieb was the scientist who worked for the CIA in the 1950s and 60s and pioneered much of what is now loosely filed under ‘ mind control’. Gottlieb is boogeyman no. 1 for some observers. Gottlieb’s hitherto secret testimony to the 1975 Church Committee was declassified in 2025.1 After the publication of […]

Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] plan to seize the great bridges across the Rhine delta. To his strategic concerns were added more personal ones: ‘I was also worried about the state of mind of General Browning and my brother officers. There seemed to be a general assumption that the war was virtually over and that one last dashing stroke […]

The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, by Alexander Dugin

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] stupid person, so this reviewer’s conclusion is that the latter interpretation is the right one. It’s an irreducible fact of life that there’s nothing that focuses the mind as decisively as a looming deadline, and, on the face of it, it appears that the Singularity serves as Dugin’s McGuffin for galvanising the minds of […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] because it reveals that the cuntocratic world has certainly been made by cunts, and its principles are therefore to be found within the modifications of these cunts’ mind. Universities are there to hide knowledge using a sophisticated form of administrative pedagogical cuntocracy that involves the selection and employment of ignorant, lazy cuntocrats to run […]

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