View from Bridge 87

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[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]

View from the Bridge 89

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[…] election.23 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims on the grounds they had a history of lying and they had failed to provide any evidence. The second line of attack was to […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] outlawry covers the full 140 Summer 2010 spectrum of international co-operation in human affairs – national sovereignty, the environment, human rights, trade and finance, WMD, security and intelligence, maritime, space, health. For a nation ‘conditioned to conquest and warfare’, the Bush-neocon, ‘war on terror’ years were not an aberration, rather a profoundly destabilising acceleration […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] page 178 Glenn Sample writes: During the research and investigation phase of this book I once had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community. He related to me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] this current issue. Much of this was interesting to me. For one thing, NFB has continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a High Noon every Wednesday way into the silly season and beyond. Here are a few samples from the prosperous Tory loyalist, a trusted member of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee and a central figure in party life from his splendid Westminster pad for more than 30 years. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Nowosielski, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the crimes of the war on terror (Hot Books, 2018) ISBN 978-1-5107-2136-4 44 9 range of senior US intelligence and law enforcement officials whose experience had led them to conclude that the threatened attacks could and should have been stopped long before September 11 2001. […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] this current issue. Much of this was interesting to me. For one thing, NFB has continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t […]

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

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] published every year. SIS gave up all pretence to being a secret agency when it had that flashy new building on the Thames constructed for it. Former intelligence chiefs and former officers are now regularly interviewed by broadcasters. They have been dragged out part of the way into the light and have discovered that […]

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