Enemies of the state

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] Thomas was acquitted. Arthur Scargill — smeared all over the media as recepient of a cheap morgage (in some versions a morgage paid for by Moscow and/or Libya) which didn’t exist. (It astonishes me that Terry Pattinson at the Daily Mirror and Roger Cook at Central TV, in particular, have stayed in their jobs […]

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The Crux of the Matter

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] Iranian border, to Erzurum‘ – to carry Iranian gas. This ‘brought criticism from the US for political reasons. The deal also initially appeared to violate the Iran- Libya Sanctions act (ILSA). ….However, because Iran will only receive transit fees for moving the gas to Turkey, the United States determined that Turkey was not in […]

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Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] quoted in The Guardian, 24 October 2002 exploding the hypocrisy of both governments. The Arab League: The Independent 25 October 2002 said that President Gaddafi had pulled Libya out of the League and was now looking to Africa for some of his strategic alliances. This was interesting for two reasons. Firstly, because it is […]

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Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] meeting Bavrada, he also met his overthrower, Rabuka. During Bavrada’s short spell in office, a bogus ‘ Libyan scare’ campaign suddenly broke out in the Pacific area (Libya in the Pacific?). Rabuka used this to justify his coup. Immediately before the coup, various CIA-linked labour unions turned up in the area; as did the […]

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] 1943 POLITICAL WARFARE EXEC POLITICAL INTELL DEPT FO (ITALIAN SECTION) 1944 BRUSSELS INTELLIGENCE WORK 1945 STOOD FOR PARLIAMENT (CON) 1940s EDUCATIONAL ADVISER TO KUWAIT OIL CO AND LIBYA 1950- SET UP A FOREIGN LANGUAGE SCHOOL BRIGHTON MURDERED IN FRANCE IN SOMEWHAT STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES CAVENDISH, ANTHONY JOHN B 20.7.27 CARLTON SPECIAL FORCES, TRAVELLERS MI6 (‘C’ […]

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AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] controlled Angola, Cape Verde, GuineaBissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe. Spain controlled Equatorial Guinea, parts of Morocco, and Western Sahara. Fascist Italy controlled Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Libya. Germany controlled Namibia, Togo/Togoland. And the United States controlled Liberia. The Dutch regions of South Africa gradually developed into colonies between the 17th and 20th centuries. […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] have been seen as an ill omen for future efforts to conduct foreign policy through corporate mercenary warfare. Although British military support to the 2011 revolution in Libya was both grudging and minimal it seems that many of the ‘military advisors’ to the Libyan revolutionary forces were, in fact, private contractors employed by Aegis […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to bear this in mind when reviewing the events of the past weeks. The vicious and obscene snuffmovie broadcast throughout the world in which the conquest of Libya is consummated by Qaddafi’s murder was not accidental. When Ronald Reagan called Qaddafi a ‘mad dog’ he was following a carefully honed script. This ‘mad dog’ […]

Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] early in its flight from London to New York, the Daily Express’s front page identified ‘The Bomb Carrier’ from an FBI source. No mention of al-Megrahi and Libya at that stage. Less than three months later, Conservative Transport Secretary Paul Channon briefed journalists about imminent arrests after brilliant police work by the Dumfries and […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] I reviewed an earlier book of his, Britain’s Secret Wars, at . 2 1 the manufacture of terrorism’, which discusses US and/or UK sponsorship of terrorists in Libya and Syria; and one on blowback – the unintended domestic consequences of imperial adventures. There is also a chapter on simulations, faking an event. He discusses […]

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