The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] with active measure to reduce the impacts of surging temperatures but instead ghettoize themselves, Israel-style. What this means in practice is higher walls and tighter borders, greater surveillance of refugees, facial recognition, drones, smart fences, and biometric databases. By 2025, the border surveillance industrial complex is estimated to be worth US$68 billion, and Israeli […]

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 […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

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[PDF file]: […] related diseases. Its diagnostic relevance has not been lessened by advances in haematology automation and molecular techniques.’105 The blood count was ordered as part of intensified medical surveillance as Hess became aged. That Coulter count showed anemia and the blood smear was performed in accordance with standards of care.106 Even if a blood smear […]

Chemtrails: the proof and the purpose

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[PDF file]: Chemtrails: the proof and the purpose T. J. Coles In 1996 people across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, began noticing unmarked aeroplanes operating over their towns. The aeroplanes laid long, thick, persistent trails across the sky. These came to be known as chemtrails (chemical trails). As the operations intensified, NASA, aviation authorities, and military […]

Book reviews

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] move with RFID (Nashville (US): Thomas Nelson, 2005) 15 warehouses. In an article written after the book was published, the authors report tell us that ‘Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre’;16 and the US government has begun producing passports with […]

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[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext Clint Watts and Andrew […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . help, posed absolutely no threat to anybody (except, possibly, himself). He was, however, encouraged in his fantasies regarding Jihad by the undercover officers involved in his surveillance. One of the more ridiculous aspects was that, ‘Rahman said he couldn’t fund the attack because he was “broke and homeless” – but he handed over […]

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[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. Clint Watts and Andrew Weisburd, ‘How Russia Dominates Your Twitter Feed to Promote Lies (And, Trump, Too)’, August 2016, at or . 7 4 The […]

The View from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action had editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.15 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the […]

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