Vote-rigging USA

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Hi-tech computer voting is now the order-of-the-day in America. In October 2002 the US Administration passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which authorised $4 billion for states to use the Direct Recording Election system (DRE) equipment which would have to meet certain standards (set by the Act) by the year 2006. At which point, […]

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Saddam Hussein on Trial

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] prime minister. Quasim himself was ousted in 1963. In 1968 another coup brought Saddam Hussein’s faction of the Ba’athist party into power. The leaders took advantage of CIA help, but Al-Ani argues that they remained independent of US influence. The new administration created, on the basis of nationalised oil revenues, a semi-industrialised authoritarian state […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] 11-page essay on Northern Ireland by a Protestant Marxist, which I think no-one else would publish, or the long Cummings piece on The Paris Review and the CIA, whose core was printed in Lobster 47 but which is so much better in this elaborated form. They are interesting, perhaps important pieces. But interesting would […]

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Bits and Pieces

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] with a reputation for physically abusing suspects, espe cially Arabs, to obtain confessions. A joke that made the rounds told of a competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly capture a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and […]

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The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] in a larger conspiracy.'(23) Gerald Posner believes that Paul was in regular contact with the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), the French equivalent of the CIA, ‘an arrangement not unheard of among security staffers at premier international hotels.’ He also claims that Paul ‘spent the last several hours before the crash with […]

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Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] is further underlined by Henry Patterson (Ulster University, Jordanstown) in the most important book ever written on Irish republicanism: The Politics of Illusion (Radius, Hutchinson, 1989). Declassified CIA documents, reprinted in the Irish Socialist Party publication, The Voice, revealed that the CIA also welcomed the formation of the Provos because they were ‘nationalist rather […]

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St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] he laundered for his friends and allies, including the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Christian Democrats (some of which was provided by the CIA), and similar sums for the Mafia – in the main, profits from the heroin trade. As expected, the Vatican, the SID (Italian secret police), generals, judges […]

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The Secret Gold Treaty: the truth behind World War II gold, Nazi plunder and elite plans to control our financial future

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] meeting of the Bilderberg Group; an unprecedented and thorough audit of the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox; and the establishment of a partnership agreement between the CIA and Mossad. Amounts substantial enough for Indonesian President Sukarno to consider using it as financial backing for the establishment of an international non-aligned bank. One of […]

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MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] the general public uneasiness about the current aims of government due primarily to the harm done to the moral standing of the western democracies by Watergate and CIA activity the ultra-left (sic) have been quick to capitalise on the discontent and sensationalised reports against the security establishment and in particular the police, the intelligence […]

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Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] operations in the immediate post-war period; giant political slush funds were created under the control of……well, this isn’t clear. At one point we are talking about the CIA; and then we are told that Richard Nixon, a politician, gave control of the biggest of the funds to the Japanese Prime Minister. (We are talking […]

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