Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

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[PDF file]: […] Afro-Cuban population — a lesson even the US Army and Marines had learned when fighting in Oriente.5 In order to diminish the threat Cuba posed to ‘national security’, it was necessary to import more white folks from the mainland. ‘The establishment of what amounted to Euro-American colonial enclaves in Cuba — with 13,000 US […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.30 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] is also the person who wrote in the 1977 notorious ‘Gable memo’: “I have given the names I have acquired to be checked out by British/ French security services, especially the French and German connections, and the South American stuff is being checked by Geoffrey StewartSmith’s institute”. It is argued by Gable’s defenders that […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Osborne told me himself that all of this was about spin and politics’. We hear from ex-Afghanistan-serving soldier Joe Glenton: ‘The main reason we were there wasn’t security here in Britain or security there in Afghanisatan. It was because of a perception that we’d failed in US eyes.’ And from Jones himself, a lucid […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

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[PDF file]: […] Conflict (New York: Nation Books, 2011). 2 Now based at the Institute for International Criminal Investigations at the Hague. 1 3 history of South Africa’s Apartheid-era government security forces’, even ‘in the face of death threats’. As for the Report, Tutu praises it as ‘an historic attempt at seeking and then speaking the truth’, […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] exposed him. In his biography of Philby, Phillip Knightley reports that the failure of Operation Valuable stemmed from the penetration of Albanian émigré organizations by the Albanian security service, ‘and more than one of these penetration agents managed to be selected for the CIA-SIS operation’.26 Some years after this, in 2013, Knightley told me: […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] heartland and There were reports overnight of gun attacks on rebel checkpoints near the Donetsk town of Sloviansk, where pro-Russian militants seized a police station and a security services building at the weekend.22 And these events occurred a month after the Russians had annexed Crimea. To my knowledge, no-one has produced a chronology detailed […]

Mark Lewis and ‘the ultimate hacker’

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] from Dale Campbell-Savours MP and a meeting of senior civil servants in the office of Home Secretary Alun Michael. Campbell-Savours, a member of the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, complained to Cumbria police that he was being harassed by dozens of strange telephone calls, apparently generated by a computer in Florida. He also complained […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] its subsidiary status is shown by the cables which show diplomatic staff being asked to gather ‘biometric’ data, as if they were low level intelligence assets. Digital security simply isn’t possible. In two years Ministry of Defence staff lost 340 laptops.1 The simple but uncomfortable truth is that to be secure, digital data demands […]

Angles Morts

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[PDF file]: […] statement by the former MI5 officer Cathy Massiter that MI5 broke its own rules to gather intelligence about CND, will increase anxiety about the activities of domestic security forces. Mr Bonnett, a Fleet Street reporter for 30 years before joining Sanity in June 1982, said: ‘It didn’t particularly surprise me when they got in […]

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