Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] more specific examination of its subjection to the USA. Williams knows this well enough, and everything he says points in this direction. The true meaning of ‘national security’, he demonstrates, has always been the protection of ‘institutions’ (above all, in effect, the defence of capitalist property relations) rather than protection of the population. While […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] on paper only. By 1933 the UK Chiefs of Staff had isolated Germany, Japan and Italy as the most dangerous threats to British national and to Imperial security. General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley suggested that the scenario was absurd and must have been drawn up in an attempt to extract funds from the US Government. […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
Most, if not all police forces already have, or are in the process of acquiring, information handling computers of some kind. The background to the present situation is best described in the pamphlet The Police Use Of Computers, parts of which were reproduced in State Research No 29, and were used by the National Computer … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Plimpton served as editor of The Paris Review, he was an agent of influence for the CIA, according to a former ambassador who served on the National Security Council. That is, he was not an intelligence officer as Matthiessen was, but one of the many journalists who were paid sub rosa to penetrate the […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] is it the ‘organ of the Platform “Fortress Europe?” and of the Geneva Group…. an informal international network concerned with European harmonisation in the fields of international security, policing, justice, data protection, immigration and asylum and its effects on fundamental rights and liberties’. The February 1996 issue, no. 41, for example, contains material on […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] a man who, by his own admission, spent virtually the whole of the post-war period working for British and American intelligence. His role in educating Thatcher on security and intelligence issues with his Shield group of old spooks is omitted and his memoir is not included in the author’s bibliography. ISC and NAFF are […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] is a very rough paraphrase indeed.) Fluoride was used in very large quantities by the WW2 nuclear programmes. Its toxic effects were known but suppressed — ‘national security’. The early research showing that it was ‘safe’ was done by scientists working on nukes in the late 40s and early 1950s whose affiliations with the […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] of devices whose results are described in a 20-page report, Microwave Harassment and Mind-Control Experimentation by Julianne McKinney, published under the auspices of the Association of National Security Alumni. McKinney has compiled a digest of some of the known scientific research, some of the known military research, and a selection of the many allegations […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] of MI5. Our fearless journalist reports that ‘Sir Steven had clearly been shaken by cruel and untimely remarks made by Tom King, chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.’ Poor baby! How fortunate that EYE SPY! was there to sympathise. Unnamed fearless reporter continues: ‘The Director-General should never have been put in this position.’ […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
The Case Against Israel Michael Neumann Oakland (US): CounterPunch, $15 Edinburgh (UK): AK Press, £10, 2005 The Power of Israel in the United States James Petras Atlanta and Black Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95 In a year in which Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of … Read more
