The Ambiguities of Power

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 […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] Then the Sunday Telegraph had to apologise to the son of Colonel Gadafi whom it had accused in 1995 of being involved in a conspiracy to flood Iran with counterfeit money. This was a whiz-bang from those ingenious people at SIS, given to Con Coughlin then the Sunday Telegraph’s man in Whitehall, at that […]

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Watergate revisited: Hougan’s ‘Secret Agenda’

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] Served in North Africa and Italy 1945-48: Military attaché in Brazil 1950: Accompanied Averell Harriman to Korea 1951: Assisted Harriman in US mediation attempts between Britain and Iran 1951-56: Assistant to the deputy Chief of Staff at Shape, Paris 1956-60 Staff Assistant to President Eisenhower 1967: Served in Vietnam 1967-72: US Military attaché in […]

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Fifth Column: Plots, smoke and mirrors – managing our Muslim brothers

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] both a threat and a gift to Arab allies. It can now identify Islamists automatically with terrorism (not completely absurd given the migration of suicidal techniques from Iran to Palestine and thence to Iraq and to Afghanistan, but still a major analytical leap that is not justified by the facts). Carefully placed warnings derived […]

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Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]

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SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

In October the US Government hired advertising doyenne Charlotte Beers as Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.(1) She intended ‘commissioning research into the Arab mentality’, confirming what we already knew: the American Government has so little respect for its many Arab/Muslim citizens, it has had to commission research into who they are. […]

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Books forthcoming

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] may be interesting to read C. M. Woodhouse’s The Rise and Fall of the Greek Colonels (Granada). Woodhouse worked for MI6 after the war in Greece and Iran, then became a Tory MP. William Keegan’s column in the Observer is the most informative economic view of Britain so his Britain Without Oil (Penguin) should […]

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The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] history but talks to those who helped make it. These include Christopher ‘Monty’ Woodhouse whose covert activities in the region after the Second World War included the Iran coup of 1953. This is Fisk’s observation on that 1997 meeting at Woodhouse’s retirement home in Oxford: ‘The coup against Mossadeq, the return of the Shah, […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] significant extracts from the Defence Attache article on 007, a two page review/article on Loftus’ The Belarus Secret, and precis on events in Italy, Peru, Africa, Mozambique, Iran, the General Collins trial mentioned in Lobster 1, (which has never been followed up in the UK press), Reagan, Laxalt and organised crime, and Nicaragua. Subs. […]

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Islamic Imperialism: a history

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] The second is its very one-sided account of recent events in the Middle East, so that, for example, the CIA’s and MI6’s covert toppling of Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 is only mentioned in passing, and the Zionists’ seizure of Palestine on the grounds that they had lived there 2000 years before – a […]

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