Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the massacres in Derry (January 1972; popularly known as ‘Bloody Sunday’) and Ballymurphy (August 1971). Carroll discusses the legal cases that followed, as the UK police and security services attempted to catch the perpetrators of various bombings – eventually sending the wrong people to prison (the Guildford Four, Birmingham Six and Maguire Seven). Also […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Lobster 61 arrest of Ratco Mladic. * IPRD ‘The Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD) is an independent, non-profit, transdisciplinary research organisation promoting equality, sustainability and security. Based in London and founded in April 2001, the IPRD operates as a voluntary collective and global network of scholars, scientists and researchers.’ Thus the IPRD’s […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] of a close working relationship with Bill Harvey. Well I found it on page 513, on a letterhead which says Bishop Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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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 […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] The wave of unrest that had engulfed President Lyndon Johnson was confronted by Richard Nixon when he won the presidential election in 1968. Leonard quotes Nixon’s domestic security adviser, John Ehrlichman, on how they determined to deal with the challenges they faced. The administration identified two domestic enemies: The Guardian 1 September 2022 at […]

The Neoconservative Threat to World Order: Washington’s perilous war for hegemony by Paul Craig Roberts

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[PDF file]: […] of Washington.’ (p. 241) ‘Reagan and Gorbachav ended the Cold War and removed the threat of nuclear Armageddon. Now the neocons, the US budget-dependent (taxpayerdependent) US military/ security complex, and the US politicians dependent on campaign funds from the military/security complex have resurrected the nuclear threat’. (p. 231) ‘Where does Obama find morons like […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

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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 […]

Hilda Murrell and the FOIA

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] any information which falls within scope of your request.’ However . . . exemption 23(5) can only be used when the information relates to fourteen specified intelligence, security and national policing bodies5 – only five of which were in existence at the time of Hilda Murrell’s murder: those five being MI5, MI6, GCHQ, the […]

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