The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] guess would be that the Kennedys paid her to disappear.6 Well ye ken noo Slight stirrings in Parliament about the Snowdon revelations of the NSA/ GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] researching and writing her book was, she tells us, ‘Fear’. She notes that she had been warned that the Rwandan regime kept its enemies and critics under surveillance. Nevertheless she surprised when it was an email from Rwanda’s high commissioner in London in 2015 that opened up her computer to ‘a steady stream of […]

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[…] Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).25 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to Give Us Adequate Warning: The Need for a Public Inquiry’.26 […]

Life during wartime Resisting counterinsurgency by Kristian Williams et al

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] states of 500 years ago? But in the USA, the subject of 95% of this book, there is no war. There is conflict and oppression and mass surveillance and Red Squads in-all-but-name in all the cities, with computers up the wazoo and big budgets. But the US cities are not yet in a state […]

Malcolm Kennedy (1946-2013)

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] prison to start rebuilding his life by setting up a small removals business. This became increasingly difficult due to what he alleged was ‘highly intrusive and unlawful surveillance’ including interference with his phones, mail and emails. This had the effect of blocking him from going about his everyday affairs whilst preventing potential customers making […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Pan, 2013) p. 433. Report at and . 32 or 33 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 6. 5G will usher in a regime of total surveillance. 7. 5G will create an insatiable need for rare earth elements and more toxic e-waste. 8. 5G from space is a tragedy of the cosmic commons. […]

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[…] Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).13 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to Give Us Adequate Warning: The Need for a Public Inquiry’.14 […]

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[…] Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).9 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to Give Us Adequate Warning: The Need for a Public Inquiry’.10 […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this exchange with Mr Challice, the Green Party’s sole MP, Caroline Lucas, revealed that she and London mayoral candidate Sian Berry had been subject to comprehensive secret surveillance by a police anti-extremism task force, the The National Counter Terrorism Police Operations Centre.1 That stalwart friend of the spooks, Professor Anthony Glees, was on hand […]

Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by inducing fear (hence “terrorism”).’3 Mr. Baltruweit is not the only former Canadian spook to refer to CSIS’s well-known illegal use of ‘counter intelligence tactics used for surveillance, intimidation and harassment’. In an article in Lobster 61, ‘CSIS and the Canadian Stasi’,4 Gareth Llewellyn, another former senior Canadian intelligence officer, describes his own persecution […]

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