After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

You might remember the red sofas, leather Chesterfields recovered in quieter fabric. You might remember that the talking didn’t end at any specific time, unique in an era when all television channels closed down at night. You might remember Oliver Reed getting drunk, although he was hardly the only disruptive guest. Reading Norman Baker’s book … Read more

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The two Indonesias and the two Americas

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] was the limit respected, but that was because the Saigon regime fell before the limit was reached.) Congressional bans on aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted by Oliver North in the Reagan White House with Pentagon and CIA support, provoking the Iran-Contra confrontation. Indonesia’s […]

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Articles

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] of accusing your enemies of running drugs into the otherwise innocent bodies of the US citizenry (China, Cuba, Nicaragua), while allowing your political allies (KMT, anti-Castro Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This essay focuses on Anslinger as manipulator of Congress, media and the American public, rather than the content of his anti-communist bullshit […]

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Empire’s Workshop

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] history and inspired by a passion for freedom, idealism and realism were closely interwoven’. Subsequently, as Grandin remarked in an interview, () Reagan was to elevate the Contras – the Nicaraguan anti-communist paramilitaries – into the ‘moral equivalents of the US founding fathers’. Readers will have to decide on Grandin’s case for the continuity […]

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Some examples of corporate, cultural and state PR

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] the word slips from executive vocabulary. For the moment at least, it maintains ownership of the term ‘rogue state’. A previous US administration managed to support the Contras, as well as organised crime, without being so described, so that it can continue to determine the criminal: e.g. those involved in drug distribution but not […]

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More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] are hints that the lines between WACL and the CIA, for example, are virtually non-existent. Item: WACL’s role as the public “cover” for CIA funding of the Contras. Item: reports that WACL’s General John Singlaub and WACL supporter, ex-DDCIA, Ray Cline accompanied Manila CIA station chief and the CIA’s General Sweitzer on a visit […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more

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From Parapolitics to Deep Politics: Deep Politics and the Death of JFK

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Peter Dale Scott University of California Press (paperback edition, with new preface) 1996, $14.95   ‘The key to understanding Deep Politics is the distinction I propose between traditional conspiracy theory, looking at conscious secret collaborations towards shared ends, and deep political analysis, defined as “the study of all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or … Read more

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Michael Ledeen again

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

As the election for the new Pope began a fascinating US radio interview with a former senior CIA official was broadcast in which the name Michael Ledeen (See Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to the … Read more

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Sources. Publications etc

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more

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