Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] instance where malware was widely used in a way that wasn’t originally intended. On the issue of governance, one could argue that cyber weapons are far more secret, and likely to be more opaque than their predecessors. There will be no military parades touting the latest weapon. Because of the invisibility of malware it […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] I now can’t remember how I first came across the LBJ-dunit thesis. Perhaps it was the reference to it in Michael Milan’s The Squad: the US Government’s Secret Alliance with Organized Crime.7 The pseudonymous author of that book I discount James Files’ story. That, as Garrick Alder has shown, is an invention. See . […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Bush administration moved us quickly towards a long planned war 10 11 against Iraq. The rest, as they say, is history. Operation Gladio remained a well-kept secret for decades. In the UK, the 30-year rule – 70 years in the case of bio-weapons expert David Kelly – makes it difficult to make democracy […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Gladio network was reviewed in Lobster 49. Of particular interest on the IPRD site is a study by Sam Urquhart, Crevice Revisited: Violent Extremism and the British Secret State, whose introduction is this: ‘In April 2007, five British Muslims were sent to jail, in each case for at least twenty years under anti-terrorism legislation. […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] off then comically says: ‘Regards to you both. Yours ever, Dennis.’ * new * Those new White House tapes There has been significant coverage recently of the ‘secret’ recordings that Omarosa Manigault Newman made (or, at least, claims to have made) in various parts of the White House, including the supposedly ultra-secure Situation Room. […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] and the global partnership of McKinsey and Co, I do so with a clear-eyed understanding of it all. A little further on he comments: The dirty little secret of Davos is that it’s one enormous business opportunity. Financial and industrial titans come not primarily to plot social and political control but to make money, […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] commentators, that in the case of the United States, the ideological duopoly is little more than a carefully constructed façade designed to distract the masses from the secret unity of its ruling elites. Furthermore, this governing stratum – known variously as the ‘Power Elite’,1 ‘The Eastern Establishment’,2 ‘Insiders’3 the ‘Shadow Government’,4 ‘National Security 1 […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: WHITE MALICE The CIA and the covert recolonization of Africa Susan Williams London: C. Hurst & Co., 2021, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay This is a very big book, 517 pages of text and another 70 of notes, sources and index. Williams’ previous book was Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and White […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a “clean break” after Westminster was finally galvanised by the MPs’ expenses scandal, and which I knew was reimbursing him for the rent. Nor was there any secret about the fact that for at least part of the period he was also renting out his London home — it is a published fact in […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Germany to talk to the Nazi leaders on a mission which had received the unofficial approval of Neville Chamberlain, who afterward offered to pay Bryant’s expenses from secret service funds. Unfinished Victory was bitterly anti-Semitic. It blamed the Jews, and specifically Kurt Eisner, the leader of the revolution in Bavaria, for the Council Revolution […]

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