Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] San Jose Mercury News, detailing links between cocaine traffickers and the Nicaraguan contra network, plus links, including Covert Operations (Iran/contra; INSLAW affair; BNL affair – arming of Iraq by western nations including US, Britain, Germany, Italy; COINTELPRO lives – evidence suggests aspects of the program continue). Cold War Legacy http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/index.html Extract from Interim Report […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of the Pentagon’s role in post-war America. En route there are portraits of the leading figures, both military and […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] missing. It’s not that the author is afraid of making political comments. He is properly scathing about the events surrounding the Australian support for the invasion of Iraq and the persecution of the lone Australian intelligence analyst willing to say that the emperor had no clothes on; and he writes this for example on […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] (Paris) 260 3780 IAL – ????? Kemp 5742411 Matt Heaton Tlx 24114 Intel – Joe Dougherty 4985040 Loun Isa (Diamonds) 212 391 2419 IAL 8901455 Iraq – Baghdad Lenzar Talal Suliman 96719 PO Box 14050 Tlx 2674 Iceirix Bill Johnson 334 9222 Jay Ko (H) 716 385 3894 (O) […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] and the election of Barack Obama seem to have punctured the efforts of Netanyahu to use the ‘war on terror’ mindset and network that took us into Iraq into launching a war upon Iran. But if he succeeds in that effort, we will see whether the Community Security Trust and the Board of Deputies […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] manufacturers. What they don’t probe, in any great depth, are Aitken’s unorthodox political connections. He was co-director, with Gerald James, of BMARC (the shippers of ‘arms to Iraq’). Readers of James’ memoir will remember him, back in 1973/74 in UNISON with G. K. Young. Similarly we are told that one of Aitken’s close advisers […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] these guys are fighting its class war.’ (p. 43) Palast believes that you should always follow the money. His account of the moves behind the invasion of Iraq is unlike any other I have seen. He sees the role of what he calls ‘big oil’ as much more prominent than most commentators; and offers […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] and Steel Institute. Another AMAX director, J.D. Bonney, was born in Blackpool in 1930 and joined AMAX in the sixties. Between 1959 and 1960 he worked for Iraq Petroleum Co, owned by Shell, B.P. and other oil companies. More significantly for us he has been vice president of SOCAL since 1972 (SOCAL Europe, that […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] and my involvement declined from being branch secretary and local election agent to being just another inactive member, unable to cut the cord. I eventually resigned over Iraq. A conspiracy theorist? Much of the content of this book would be described as conspiracy theories by the major media. I would reject that – and […]
