Assassination or ‘targeted killings’? Joshua Raines of the University of Iowa College of Law argues that although assassination, ‘narrowly defined’ [sic], is illegal, ‘targeted killings’ could well be permissible under ‘just war’ criteria. The US should therefore pass legislation that allows for ‘…targeted killings under a very narrow range of circumstances with adequate checks built … Read more
[…] book: ‘Let’s face it, the NUM were never more than a bunch of amateurs trying to take on the might of the state.’ Windsor is probably the spook Milne thinks he is, but this is true. Big boys’ rules. Notes He received admiring reviews from the British Left, notably Paul Foot (the Spectator, 21 […]
From Mark Hollingsworth As the journalist, along with Nick Fielding, who first reported David Shayler’s revelations about MI5 in the Mail on Sunday in 1997, I would like to set the record straight on your piece in Lobster 36 (‘Peter’s Friends’?) I have remained close to David Shayler and Annie Machon, his girlfriend and also … Read more
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 $75.00 (US), £37.99 (UK), h/b This is an interesting and timely book and it is a great pity it is so expensive. Put out as a paperback and maybe with a less academic-sounding title, this would sell. Little of it is intellectually taxing and any … Read more
[…] instincts are cautiously tolerant, are presented with ‘facts’ that constantly imply an enemy within. But is there more to this than meets the eye? The French ‘ spook’ trade newsletter, Intelligence Online (edition 531, 10 September) contained details of increases expected in European R&D expenditures in the security sector. There was an odd entry […]
John Smith: Old Labour’s lost leader? In non-New Labour Labour Party circles the late John Smith is remembered with great reverence.(1) Quite what this is based on escapes me. All I can identify is his dislike of Peter Mandelson: Smith kept him at bay therefore Smith was a good man seems to be the argument. … Read more
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on … Read more
[…] it is partly a newsletter, in a continuous process of up-dating the reader. One of those themes is the survey of legislation and politics in the US spook world. But as well as the fairly dry details of bills, appropriations and Congressional debates, it covers the major parapolitical themes. So, for example, in the […]
Alien baloney In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from them. … Read more
[…] some of the claims contained in the book A Man Called Intrepid. The rest consists of another couple of now redundant bits from the team of Andrews/ Gordievsky, and a couple of pseudo-theoretical essays which I found very hard going and not worth the effort. What the world does not need know is spook theory.
