Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] fact go to jail, but with sentences that were either token, or soon reversed in higher courts. On a higher level, the fall of the Shah in Iran and of Marcos in the Philippines have been followed by new revelations of those dictators’ links to private as well as public forces in the United […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to report the coverage. ‘Our one access to daylight was the US media and its knock on to the Filipino media…It was a huge, huge stitch-up.’1 6 Iran 2009 H arding’s description of the events of Manila 1986 may shed some light on the still under-explored Iranian elections of 2009 and on the uncertainty […]

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

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud London: Macmillan, 2023, 317 pages Colin Challen This is the first book about Pegasus, the cyber surveillance software developed by the Israeli company the NSO Group. It lays out the threat posed by the world’s leading cyber surveillance outfit. It is […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] word ‘allegedly’ from this quotation; but otherwise Kilcullen’s remarks are not what one expects from a counterinsurgency expert working for the United States. Similarly, his discussion of Iran notes that ‘those of us who served in Iraq always saw Iranian actions as aggressive – understandably, I guess, since they were doing their best to […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] facts – were not divulged to the jury at the trial of three Scarland senior execs, who were acquitted of any wrongdoing. The (potential) coming war with Iran: where the money is going Much has already been said in the news about the potential for a wide–ranging war with Iran following the assassination by […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] him that the US bases in that country were vital for American interests in the region and not some sort of rip-off. And even though Mattis regarded Iran as a threat to the US position in the Middle East, nevertheless he still thought that the nuclear deal with Iran had been an American success, […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Africans, including foreign minister Pik Botha, were pulled off Pan Am Flight 103 at the last minute’.5 4 Jason Allardyce and Mark Macaskill in ‘US spies blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb’, in The Sunday Times 16 August 2009. 5 In ‘The Crime of Lockerbie’ in The Spokesman no. 105, 2009. Page 90 Winter 2009/10 […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Currently, the U.S. and its garrison state (or is it the tail wagging the dog on this one?) are hypocritically and shamelessly targeting Iran, a NPT signatory, for destruction. The U.S.’s greatest champion of the ‘war on terror’, Israel is an increasingly dangerous and regionally destabilising outlaw in its own […]

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