Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] of manifest destiny sought to resolve this contradiction by stipulating that domestic conquest was not imperial. Control of the Western hemisphere has always been defined as national security, not of asserting US domination. Likewise, it is impossible to understand the actions of the US government in Asia since 1910 without acknowledging that the US […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio 5 Live […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] in fact. And now we have the deep state (and deep events). The term ‘deep state’ comes from the politics of Turkey and means centrally the intelligence/ security services and the military’: sectors of the state which in most countries are barely regulated by the formal democratic process which funds them.1 We might say […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Craig Murray recently: But in addition to legislative and state attacks on protest, the neoliberal state is also ramping up its more subtle elements of control. The security services are continually being expanded. The media is not only increasingly concentrated, it is increasingly under direct security-service influence — the Integrity Initiative, the Paul Mason […]