Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] it’s Twitter. And here’s another Cobain cracker: ‘A social media network for young people, launched around the term “woke”, is actually a covert British government counterterrorism programme, security officials have admitted.’ 28 The fact that the official inquiry into 9/11 tried to suppress one chapter, on the Saudi links of the hi-jackers, suggests that […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee? Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war dispute with […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] On 15 July the first UN troops entered, and Belgian intervention forces left the Congo, except for Katanga, where they stayed to train and build a Katangese security force strong enough to resist the Congolese military. UN troops took up position in Katanga as well but stayed out of the intra-Congolese conflict. This position […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] coup resisters; the lack of implementation of the Minsk Accords to end that conflict; and the outright rejection of treaty proposals by Moscow to create a new security architecture in Europe taking Russia’s security concerns into account. But . . . there was no NATO promise not to expand eastwards. There was talk among […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] little talent and had an exaggerated sense of his own significance. The reader’s attention was drawn to his comments that he had been classified as a national security risk by the Special Branch and that the CIA effectively controlled broadcasting in the UK.1 Dee served in the RAF from 1953 to 1958, spending much […]
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. […]
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 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] After the 2010 general election Cabinet Secretary O’Donnell contacted the Liberal Democrats and ushered them into meetings with the Bank of England and the head of the Security Service on Friday 6 May 2010. He and his officials also briefed both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaderships on the latest economic figures – a […]