Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in the High Court last year. One of the by-products of that case,3 was the revelation of hundreds of files on British decolonisation generally, not only Kenyan, hidden away in a highly secret government archive at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. They had been deliberately concealed in order to fool future historians. Some were even […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] claiming that Saddam thwarted and resisted international weapons inspectors in order to bluff the world into believing that he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best- hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to contain a threatening state/empire, but rather seeking to convert a broad movement within Islamic civilization to accept the value structure of Western Modernity — an agenda hidden within the official rubric of a “War on Terrorism.”’2 0 Indeed, British, French, and American special forces are working with those they call ‘al-Qaeda’ in Libya […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

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[PDF file]: […] Rishi Sunak, was head boy at Winchester. This tells us a lot about British society and British politics, but society would seem to think it is best hidden away and so it is seldom if ever discussed. And Seldon has over the years contributed to this cover-up. He is the author/editor of some fifty […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] that aren’t connected to the internet using radio waves. (Update: Clarification — the NSA can access offline computers through radio waves on which it has already installed hidden devices.) It can intercept phone calls by setting up fake base stations. It can remotely access a computer by setting up a fake wireless connection. It […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] are largely only pawns, radicalized with weaponized nationalism to face killing and death without squinting in the service of empire. Meanwhile, safely a few steps detached and hidden behind the façade of liberalism or feigned benevolence and endless trails of front organizations, the power players keep their hands clean and faces out of sight. […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] London police sergeant in the 1850s who brought a couple to trial for an ‘indecent offence’ in a park, but was then demoted to constable for having hidden behind a tree to observe it. Now we accept surveillance cameras in every street, Google’s satellite mapping, the use of ATM and shop receipts to track […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

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[PDF file]: […] crime. 6 then the memoir proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material.

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were then forwarded to Iraq or Iran, usually funneled through Jordan or Cyprus (some shipments of propellant – falsely labelled as chocolate – were, unknown to him, hidden among consignments sent through Asil Nadir’s Unipac in North Cyprus). Exposure and shut-down But by 1986-87 the story was beginning to unravel. Astra Explosives in Kent […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act’. Surely, if there had been some sort of all pervasive hidden conspiracy then ‘these people could have been saved by the millions; but instead they were taken completely by surprise’. (p. 38) The people he was murdering […]

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