Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a centre left journal which suffered a crisis in 1967 because of […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] two agenda items: ‘I. The possibilities of the development of a European energy policy, and the consequences for European-North American relations. II. Conflicting expectations concerning the European Security Conference.’ 54 The Steering Committee agreed that the authors of the working papers ‘should be in close contact with each other and the Secretariat, in order […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] trained at the same Venice, Florida, flight school, Huffman Aviation.2 Eleven of them opened bank accounts in Florida, with the same bank, and apparently using genuine Social Security numbers – obtained from where, we do not know – as a form of ID.3 Fifteen of the hijackers somehow obtained Floridian driving licences (the issuing […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] was ‘corrupt as hell’. (p. 170). The country was a fully-fledged kleptocracy. Between 2001 and 2020, the U.S. allocated $143 billion ‘for reconstruction, aid programs and Afghan security forces’. Adjusted for inflation, this exceeds the funds allocated to the post WW2 Marshall Plan for the whole of Western Europe. (p. 30) Much of this […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] morsels.15 The recording of General Kelly firing her was so clear I think it highly possible that the phone was placed in plain sight (a breach of security for the Situation Room, where electronic devices from outside are banned) and that General Kelly might even have been aware that the recording was taking place. […]