Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] unambiguous proof that absolutely nothing will deter us, that the entire world arrayed against us cannot stop us.’ (p. 286) Let us not forget that the current Pentagon doctrine is called ‘full spectrum dominance’ and that the US currently has over 1000 military bases around the world. In his recent piece on the subject […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] pull together and examine the anomalies in the 9-11 story. And there is a ton of them. (1) the non-interception of the planes; the hole in the Pentagon apparently too small to have been made by the plane said to have done it; the strange collapse of the buildings themselves; the hijacker passport being […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
The Shadow Warriors Bradley F. Smith (Andre Deutsch, London 1983) The network of close personal connections established in O.S.S. (the fore-runner of the CIA) “helped bridge some of the widest gaps in American society and could be called upon in cases of need long after the war ended. For example, when in 1964 former British […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Sir Michael is among a number of senior British commanders who are said to question Britain’s backing for a US invasion of Iraq, and are sceptical of Pentagon claims about Saddam Hussein’s links with the al-Qa’ida terror organisation and his stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.’ (1) Even more off-message On 25 January 2004 […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] day after the article was printed Pravda published a long article on the Generals’ revolt in which it said that the mutiny was encouraged by NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA. (18) The rumours on April 22nd were launched cautiously by “a minor official at the Elysee Palace itself”, according to Crosby Noyes in […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] at least three others missed. I find it difficult to believe that any of the powerful elements in the US state apparatus – the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, for example – would have felt it necessary to ambush Kennedy if they just wanted to get rid of him, or change some of his policies. […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] careers for that to be accepted. Talbot conveys better than any other account I have read the conflict between JFK and those bits of the state, the Pentagon and the CIA, chiefly, which had serious vested interests in the Cold War. The centrepiece of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] have foreseen in 1963 just how massive an operation Vietnam was to become within only three years. Even the early ‘hawks’ in the State Department and the Pentagon assumed that south-east Asia could be controlled relatively easily and cheaply. (15) However, a more sophisticated version of this argument can be made — and it […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] which he bashed Prouty, the Christic Institute and dozens of others. Stone’s sin was to portray a ‘Mr X’ that was based on Prouty’s experiences in the Pentagon shortly before the JFK assassination. Stone had first approached Prouty for script assistance in July 1990. Although Right Woos Left in its earlier drafts, as well […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] 020 7586 5892, Fax 020 7483 2531; or from Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9DX. Price: £5.00 Archives/Released Documents (collected by Jane Affleck) Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Audiotapeswww.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/ Documents relating to attempts by the New York Times and Washington Post to publish stories on the Pentagon Papers in June […]