The British American Project for the Successor Generation

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] the easiest question: what do George Robertson, Chris Smith and Marjorie ‘Mo’ Mowlam have in common? They are, of course, all strong Tony Blair supporters in the new Labour Cabinet. And what about Peter Mandelson and Elizabeth Symons? Not yet quite Cabinet members, but both are key figures in the ‘modernising project’ in Blair’s […]

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9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] I spoke about a month ago in Berkeley, concerning Ali Mohamed, Washington’s double agent inside al-Qaeda, and also a chief 9/11 plotter.(1) I want to add important new material tonight. Ali Mohamed, an Egyptian, was a close ally of Osama bin Laden. As he later confessed in court, he also aided the terrorist Ayman […]

Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] and labour organisations: the ‘sanctuary movement’, the Native American movement and one industrial dispute, are analysed as case studies. They are preceded by a long essay, “The New State Repression”, by Ken Lawrence, a frequent CAIB contributor and member of CAIB’s Board of Advisors. In his essay, a kind of theoretical framework for the […]

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Notes from the underground part 3: British fascism 1983-6

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] to hold all the strings of power he could lay his hands on… he wanted all decisions to go back to him.’ (3) Further, Webster had no new strategic ideas, and in the early 1980s sought to repeat, in changed circumstances, the strategy that had given the NF apparent success for a time in […]

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Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

Organisation, History and Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or ‘ new’ right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an ‘anti wet’ alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist […]

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Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’ Incensed by the duplicity of the NED’s activities which now perpetuate the subversive activities of the CIA, a new foundation of progressive American scholars, lawyers and activists have started The International Endowment for Democracy (IED) ‘dedicated to promoting real democracy in the country that needs […]

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Demos

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] longer version is at < http://www.pertier.com/demos.html > Ostensibly a left-leaning ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘ New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been portrayed as one of deception, secret funding, rigged […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of his alma mater, Syracuse, and thence to Washington DC where he spent time away from The Guardian in 1981 on his Lawrence M […]

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The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US- European Relations (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] overall strategy of US foreign policy has always been a matter of contention. In terms of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), the original analyses came from New Left historians (2) who were writing within the overall critique of post-war policy, particularly from the perspective of the interests of political economy.(3) While the New […]

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SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] 2000, £25 A Life: A. J. Ayer Ben Rogers Chatto and Windus, London, 1999, £20   Many books on intelligence matters simply rehash old ‘facts’, adding a new twist to – a slightly different interpretation of – well-known, if not necessarily well-understood, events. If they contain new information at all, this is often padded-out. […]

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