Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

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[PDF file]: […] neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace Continues at the foot of the next page. political dissent, coordinated by the FBI (e.g. COINTELPRO) and CIA but ultimately initiated and maintained by the major corporate conglomerates whose central goal was to perpetuate the military-industrial gravy train that World War II brought them.3 […]

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[…] faked claims that he was still hiding illicit arms, Gideon Rose, ’How Iraq Happened: Washington’s Fateful Misreading of Saddam’ 11 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001, reviewed in Lobster 48. 12 4 he reasoned, what did this imply? It meant […]

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[…] their conspiracy to oust him from power. He saw no reason to play their game or deal with their prying inspectors.’ But Saddam Hussein was correct: the CIA did indeed know they had no WMDs. I noted in Lobster 86 that two former CIA analysts had recently been talking ‘How Iraq Happened:Washington’s Fateful Misreading […]

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[…] their conspiracy to oust him from power. He saw no reason to play their game or deal with their prying inspectors.’ But Saddam Hussein was correct: the CIA did indeed know they had no WMDs. I noted in Lobster 86 that two former CIA analysts had recently been talking ‘How Iraq Happened:Washington’s Fateful Misreading […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

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[PDF file]: […] a plane crash – flight 3804 – in 1947 in Ethiopia. He was working for the Central Intelligence Group – which was about to be renamed the CIA – and was America’s leading undercover officer in the Middle East. The author, a journalist, describes decades of work researching her father’s activities, trying to get […]

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[…] goes to striking lengths to exculpate Russia from criticism. After the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny by the Russian state, it had an article headlined ‘Navalny poisoning: CIA, MI6, “discredited” state-funded Bellingcat play key role in accusing Russia’.17 Getting Corbyn The campaign to destroy Jeremy Corbyn has been described in this journal in some […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a pilot, a painter, an accountant for the Mob, a fraudster, a supplier and modifier of weapons and a maker of documents for the Mob and the CIA, Chauncey Holt said in 1991: ‘Dallas that day was flooded with all kinds of people who ended up there for some reason. It’s always been my […]

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[…] their rivals on other similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] their rivals on other similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] Twitter) A spoof Yelp-type review of mercenary company ‘Silvercorp USA’:41 ‘Friendly service, clean office but got caught while planning a coup. 1 star Do not recommend – CIA.’ 42 Turkey Tattle Blink during recent events and you may have missed the news that an Pierce has no newer blog entries than 1 February 2013, […]

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