Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] National Endowment for Democracy, which, as Blum notes elsewhere in the book, does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The day after the coup, the Pentagon announced that it was ‘kinda delighted’ that ‘all of a sudden’ their ships could go to Fiji. Blum doesn’t note a short article that appeared in […]

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Some examples of corporate, cultural and state PR

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] () Running parallel to the hearts and minds campaign to win over Islamic opinion, was America’s Long War announcement, an attack advert – otherwise known as a Pentagon strategy review – warning citizens/external audiences about the Long War ahead.() Doom-laden, it went head-to-head with China’s emerging Harmony PR, a sort of Confucius-moderne philosophy.() Beating […]

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used […]

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Anti-totalitarianism: The left-wing case for a neo-conservative foreign policy

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] preposterous. The rationale for Nato’s deployment was the opposite.’ At best, Kamm hasn’t done his homework. There was a good deal of nuclear war-fighting talk among the Pentagon and its satellite think-tanks and university departments. It was all the rage among the strategic theorists in the late 1970s. The issue was the credibility of […]

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The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] and Command School in Bandung (SESKOAD) into a training-ground for the takeover of political power. SESKOAD in this period became a focal point of attention from the Pentagon, the CIA RAND, and (indirectly) the Ford Foundation. (46) Under the guidance of Nasution and Suwarto, SESKOAD developed a new strategic doctrine, that of Territorial Warfare […]

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The dark side of Washington: Seymour Hersh and the Kennedy legacy

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] 1962 missile crisis and closedown of ‘Operation Mongoose’. But evidence of deep disagreement with Kennedy’s emerging detente with both Cuba and the USSR in the CIA and Pentagon can be found in the bizarre Life Magazine effort of June 7 1963 to prove that the missiles were still there.(4) Hersh’s reading of JFK’s November […]

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Islamic Imperialism: a history

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] and remains, far more imperialistic than the West has generally been, and that it was this that inspired the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, rather than any resentment against American aggression towards Moslem countries. In other words, 9/11 would have happened even without those US bases in Saudi Arabia. Islam […]

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Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] in, this looks very impressive and is thoroughly documented. September 1988 includes (using IFA’s headlines) Jerusalem Christian ’embassy’ aids Contras Israeli Help on New South African Aircraft Pentagon Sleaze Pipeline Sleaze etc etc. It’s your basic parapolitics methodology (read and collate a hell of a lot) applied to Israel’s foreign policy. It is one […]

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Secrets from Germany

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] list of US and UK diplomats expelled from various countries for “spying activities” since 1980; and, in a second article, describes the power struggle between the CIA, Pentagon and State Department over the NSC and its new head, Frank Carlucci. Two other articles on American parapolitics are reprinted from American publications – on Vernon […]

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Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] has become synonymous with ‘mass suicide’? An ‘After Action Report’ of the Joint Chiefs of Staff helps to establish the chronology of the myth. According to the Pentagon, which took responsibility for transporting the dead back to the United States, the National Military Command Center (NMCC) was first notified of a disaster in Guyana […]

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