Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] the deep structures of the American state. What really comes across in Briody’s account is anger at the tacit collusion between Halliburton, the Republican administration and the Pentagon in an absolutely gargantuan misuse of public money. And the sums involved are truly staggering. As an extended piece of investigative journalism The Halliburton Agenda did […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] March, 1983. Letter of 2 October 1997 from William A. Longwell, Acting Counsel, Marine Systems Command to author, concerning a request filed in 1994. See also ‘ Pentagon to set priorities in non-lethal Technologies’ in Inside the Air Force: an exclusive weekly report on Air Force programs, procurement and policy-making, Vol. 5 no. 15, […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] action a year before invasion took place’, The Guardian, 2 May 2005. For an account of what usually happens see David L. Robb, Operation Hollywood: how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004) Gavin Smith, ‘Hearts & minds’, Film Comment 40 (5), September-October 2004, pp. 28-33. ‘Arab American publisher […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] the CIA station was doubling in size. Honduras was a major transit station for cocaine, thanks to their corrupt military. It was clear to the CIA and Pentagon that the contra effort required the support of Honduras, and that the price for this support was to overlook the cocaine traffic. ‘I watched the CIA […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] is pretty well what happened. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has come across this wargame before. It doesn’t appear to be in the Pentagon Papers, for example. (Or did I miss it?) RR The Lemming Folk James Gibb Stuart (William McClellan, Glasgow, 1980) This isn’t a new book but is […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] military intelligence ‘knows the identity’ of the sniper, and gives his age and address, this ‘is believed to be’ is a phoney: a phone call to the Pentagon would tell the British intelligence people whether the man was ex-special forces or not. The Times 23 December 1996 reported that Britain was expanding its ‘psychological […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] examples on the Net, 31 ‘Case Study 2’ (see note 16) periods of drought or storm’,3 2 about which the Vietnamese knew all too well. After the Pentagon Papers leak, Seymour Hersh revealed in the New York Times that America had been manipulating the weather in Vietnam in order to cause floods. The project […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] to those of the Middle East, further emphasizing the continent’s strategic importance.’1 Unlike its mega-embassies and military bases in Iraq, Kosovo, and other strategically important locations, the Pentagon has smaller, mobile bases across Africa. The Congressional report tells us that these ‘facilities as “lily pads”, or Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs), and access to locations […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] – the ‘ideological paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a […]
