Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] personnel who were involved in, or claim to have been involved in, the various intelligence scandals of the Reagan/Bush years: October Surprise, Inslaw, BCCI, the arming of Iran and Iraq. And so Stich begins to learn about Mossad operations; factions within the CIA; assassination squads; drug dealing on a massive scale; corrupt politicians, judges […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse could be done on the quiet. Hence Malaysia and the Pergau dam fiasco; hence arming Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Indonesia and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public Interest […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] increased intervention by neighbouring powers, Turkey and Pakistan are going through a period of domestic instability and the West is trying to provoke a similar instability in Iran. Meanwhile, the intervention in Somalia has simply dispersed Islamist radicals, increasing Islamism in Eastern Africa and Northern Nigeria. The catalogue could go on. Most truly insurgent […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] (emphasis added) This extract, be it noted, is the work of man who was in charge of the British end of the overthrow of the government of Iran, part of which, according to another of James’ revelations, was the assassination of ‘a key minister by sending him an exploding shaver’. (p. 45) The Tony […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] Committees of inquiry would be set up to examine them. That is what happened over Watergate, and it is happening today over the supply of weapons to Iran. When Americans feel that their constitution is being challenged by anti-democratic bodies, the first thing they do is to bring into action their Congressional investigative committees […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] compensated by land located in Europe or in the countries that victimized them was misreported, then highly circulated to fuel, instead, the notion of a rabid anti-Semitic Iran. From the height of the network to the lawyers’ boardrooms, and the doctors’ lounges, the pro-Israel supporters of the network aggressively attack as “anti-Semites” any critical […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] where the growth of the left, nationalist movements presents the US with its own dilemma or problem : how to confront a geopolitical threat (Venezuelan alliances with Iran, for instance) when the old methods of Reaganite-sponsored terror are no longer available. () Grandin’s book is wide ranging and detailed in its historical accounts of […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] largely a fabrication by the USA and UK. But to produce the evidence is another. Curtis has produced the evidence – and, as the extract on the Iran coup reproduced above shows, often from official papers. And to my knowledge, no-one else has. Given the pathetic intellectual and social deference paid to the Foreign […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] 1973.(147) This is consistent both with the Nixon doctrine and with its corollary that (in the words of the Rand Corp’s Indonesia expert, Guy Pauker) “Brazil, Nigeria, Iran and Indonesia….are expected to assume a dominant position in their respective part of the world…possibly as a result of a tacit devolution of responsibilities by global […]
