Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] that he and his supporters were absolutely prepared to move the United States in a decidedly authoritarian direction to hold onto power. McFarland was appointed Deputy National Security Advisor, working under General Michael Flynn, who was ‘part of Trump’s inner circle’. (p. 141) One of the people she brought into the administration, with Flynn’s […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] a continuation of ‘A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election’ in Lobster 73.1 What happened to the external management review of Broadmoor high security hospital that Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell had commissioned, once the Conservative Party had left office? The report was sent to his office in April 1997, shortly […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] issue. Much of this was interesting to me. For one thing, NFB has continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] render the trial process unfair to the defendant. Secondly, as the name suggests, PII is only used to protect an important public interest. This may be national security; it may be the safety of an individual. Sometimes the defence in a trial can be told a PII application is being made; sometimes even letting […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] on what has been portrayed as a vicious crackdown on those agitating for more democracy and against legislation 10 Woodward p. 67 relating to extradition and national security. On top of this, the USA has not been slow to accuse China of responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the virus was manufactured in […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] mattered were warned. They just didn’t want to hear the warnings. ‘On April 17, 2007, famed short-seller Jim Chanos and other hedge fund managers met under tight security at the World Bank in Washington for the G-8 meeting. Chanos and Paul Singer briefed prominent policy officials about the growing financial instability. They gave irrefutable […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] stunned the European political establishment by voting in a referendum against the Maastricht Treaty, signed earlier in the year and providing for both political union (enhanced defence, security and other cooperation) and monetary union, the creation of a single currency, unnamed at that time. Giving the lie to the idea that the European Community […]