Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] of Sese Mobuto to power. He was expelled from Zanzibar for subversive activities in 1965 and transferred to Brazil as counsellor for political affairs at the US embassy. Here, he helped consolidate in power the military dictatorship that, with US encouragement, had seized control in 1964. This regime ruled by the most brutal methods, […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] distributor. Floridia cited Stark’s frequent prison visits from Wendy M. Hansen at the U.S. consulate in Florence, ‘Dear Ron’ letters from Charles C. Adams at the U.S. embassy in London, addressed to Stark’s LSD lab in Brussels (these were seized by Italian police after his arrest), and his links with Philip B. Taylor III […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department was the ultimate beneficiary. Similarly, the necessary market revolution against the sclerotic corporatism […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] see Peter Weiler, chapter 1. 18 6 loyally to keep an agreement. 19 In 1948, a member of the U.S. State Department, Third Secretary at the London Embassy, Herbert E. Weiner, reported from London on ‘Attitude of Trades Union Congress Towards World Federation of Trade Unions and American International Trade Union Leaders’, and wrote: […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the Warren Commission, that refers to an Associated Press (AP) news report on the interview Fidel Castro gave to the AP reporter Daniel Harker at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana on 7 September 1963. Picking up on the AP wire feed, the New Orleans newspaper The Times-Picayune ran a page 7 story, ‘Castro Blasts […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] imagine just how much it really is!’ British dominance A reflection of the British dominance of the PMC industry is that the website for the United States Embassy in Baghdad provides a list of ten security companies working in country, half of which are UK-based or were established by UK persons.1 0 At the […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: ‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right John Newsinger On 14 May 2018, the US Embassy in Israel was formally moved to Jerusalem. This had first been called for by Congress in 1995, but with the proviso that the President could issue a waiver every […]