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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] from entering the United States. (p 82) And as time went on things got even rowdier and more threatening at his rallies, until ‘I now have private security at all of them. Everyone covering Trump at NBC is under armed protection’. (p. 190) Indeed, ‘Because of Trump’s war on the media, networks have required […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘The drama of failed warnings began when Tenet and Black pitched a plan, in the spring of 2001, called “the Blue Sky paper” to Bush’s new national security team. It called for a covert CIA and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat—”getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] UKIP head office. Mr Challice wrote: ‘I can assure you that for years we have been aware of the story concerning UKIP having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would be surprising if SIS (or whoever) had not […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] co-opted by the prime minister’s chief press officer (Alastair Campbell) during the assault on Iraq? Of course a lot has not changed since 1989. The intelligence and security services remain entirely unaccountable. Then there seemed some slight chance that, via the Labour Party, something might be done about that. I even got a resolution […]