THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] prevented dark truths from being told’. (p. 53) Kendzior, who sees her job as investigating ‘the conspiracies of the powerful’, has earned her denunciation as a CIA agent, an agent of the Kremlin, a member of Hamas, of the Yakuza, of the IRA and of Al Qaeda. She has even been accused of being […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] it works. 18 See ‘Dominic Cummings Sets Up New Tech Consultancy Company’ by Giles Turner at or . 19 20 See . 6 Donald Trump the un-intelligent agent All this discussion about whether Donald Trump is an actual Russian spy! I’m not saying that I don’t think he’s capable of being a traitorous bastard, […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] Russianfriendly accounts and Trumpkins has been going on for some time.” If that was true, it meant that anyone expressing support for Donald Trump might be an agent of the Russian government, whether or not the person intended to play that role. It meant that the people they called “Trumpkins,” who made up half […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

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[PDF file]: […] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

German links to the Hammarskjöld case

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[PDF file]: […] Avikat in 1961 via the Belgian-Congolese trading company MITRACO. Its owner was the retired Belgian Colonel Jean Cassart, who, in the late 1950s, had become Dornier’s sales agent for Katanga. Negotiations for buying several DO-28As had already started in July 1960. On 24 February 1961 MITRACO placed an order, and on 10 August the […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] very obviously an arms procurement conduit for weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, MI6 colluded in the provision of components for the Iraqi ‘Babylon’ Supergun, disavowing its murdered agent Jonathon Moyle in Chile, and allowed British businessmen at Matrix-Churchill, who were MI6 agents, to be prosecuted.32 Echoes of this grubby incident have been invoked by […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that I disseminated to journalists in 2013 documented such an array of abuses by the NSA, accomplished through such a diversity of technological capabilities, that no one agent in the daily discharge of their responsibilities was ever in the position to know about all of them – not even a system administrator. To find […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] cynicism, but can never free themselves from Communist ideology”. The review was written by Rita Hinden, who was carefully selected for the task. Michael Josselson, the CIA agent who had set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom, had told Irving Kristol, the coeditor of Encounter, that he should run a review “by one of […]

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