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Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] out the insides of the computer where it had been hiding, leaving behind no evidence that it had ever been activated. The data-mining operation involved the National Security Agency, the CIA and Israel’s military.2 One would be hard put to slide a cigarette paper between the above malware description and Pegasus’s capabilities, except perhaps […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

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[PDF file]: […] the first that Communist infiltration eventually led to direct action from the US,7 through the CIA but under the authorisation of the White House, to protect hemispheric security; and the other that the US acted to protect financial interests, most prominently those of the Boston-based United Fruit Company (UFCO),8 which had large economic interests […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

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[PDF file]: […] the US elite had made great inroads toward usurping its European rivals. France and Britain owed enormous sums to the US banks that Note 2 continued: and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, dipped her toes into the water with a speech to Demos.11 Inter alia, amidst all the usual forelock-tugging about how wonderful our security and intelligence services are, she quoted with approval Andrew Parker, head of MI5, who said: ‘the reason why things are secret is not because……… we want […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, dipped her toes into the water with a speech to Demos12 Inter alia, amidst all the usual forelock-tugging about how wonderful our security and intelligence services are, she quoted with approval Andrew Parker, head of MI5, who said: ‘the reason why things are secret is not because……… we want […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

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[PDF file]: […] to persuade a public, whose support for isolationism and keeping out of Europe’s wars was strong, that Germany and Italy presented a real threat to American values, security and its way of life. He painted a bleak and threatening picture of the international situation, arguing that it was in the US interest to turn […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] response really the right one when a president clearly demonstrates a determination to stay in office by any means necessary? And when Trump turned on his national security adviser, John Bolton, for potentially blowing a hole in his lying defence, how does Sopel respond? ‘You have to give it to Trump – when it […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] resources, such as police dogs, armed officers, CCTV operators, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and vehicle checkpoints.’16 In the same year that Servator was launched, ‘the biggest security magazine in the UK’ quoted data from the ‘London terrorism survey’ which showed that, ‘Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) of people who live or work […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process.’ In Lofgren’s view it consists of: ‘…..a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Record Edward Snowden London: MacMillan, 2019 Citizenseven ‘I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public’, claims former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in the second sentence of recent memoir, Permanent Record. That this immodest claim is one of the opening lines tells us […]