Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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Our Fight for Democracy: A History of Democracy in the United Kingdom by John Strafford

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[…] as she is more formally known, Baroness Ashton of Upholland (somewhere in Lancashire). Our Cath was recently appointed the EU’s first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (is there a Low Representative?) on an annual salary package of £328,000 that makes her the highest paid female politician in the world and £68,000 […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but also to a broader […]

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sites; while Appendix L is ‘Examples of Cover Organisations throughout the World’ and details about forty instances. Or how about, Appendix N, ‘East German Ministry of State Security Emergency Operations Bunkers’? For a one volume, global round-up of Cold War detritus this will surely stand for some time as the first port of call […]

Lobster review: Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

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A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

[PDF file]: […] on MI5, MI6 and other covert state activities, research that is largely unavailable elsewhere. While Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, Robin Ramsay’s Lobster casts its net wider to encompass histories of fascism, the JFK assassination, the Lockerbie bombing and the military’s medical experiments on service […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he attended, was Director of the CIA covert action department ‘Office of Policy Coordination’ (OPC). The OPC was a unique part of the CIA. While the ‘National Security Council Directive on Office of Special Projects’ (NSC 10/2) stated that the OPC would be funded from the CIA’s secret budget, its command structure would be […]

Book reviews

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[…] middle-class “public servant” consensus Schumpeter had praised in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942). It could expand the numbers involved, square its own interests, and exit into relative security. ‘Mastering the system involved privileging the already privileged, as the Farepak episode showed, confirming its inegalitarianism and long-term untenability. In 2008 as much as during the […]

Also noticed by Robin Ramsay and Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] have been part of the original plan.) To my knowledge there is no information on how ‘the line’ was handed down, and by whom, within the national security establishment. We do know that a CIA media asset, journalist Joe Alsop, was given the task of persuading new president Johnson to abandon his proposed Texas […]

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