Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] is a belter (the emphasis is mine): ‘In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the 9 For example: the claims that no plane hit the Pentagon; that there were no planes at all, they were holograms; that the buildings were destroyed by nukes in the basements; that the buildings were destroyed by […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] which they are inserted75 but will increase anti-American feeling and thus – and this is the only point of them – will generate new ‘enemies’ for the Pentagon to fight; with expensive ordnance76 provided by the arms manufacturers; a small fraction of whose profits will be used to bribe Congress. This is the really […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: The Doomsday Machine Daniel Ellsberg London: Bloomsbury, 2017, £20.00 Alex Cox Until recently I only knew Daniel Ellsberg as the whistleblower who made the Pentagon Papers public, and for his peace campaigning over the years. I had no idea that prior to releasing a trove of documents related to the American War in Vietnam, […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] President Nixon’s directive in the summer of 1971 to uncover and silence unauthorized leakers of administration secrets. Topping their list of targets was Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon official who had helped draft the top-secret Pentagon Papers, a highly critical study of the history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg had leaked the 7,000page report […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] historical examples of false flag events providing a casus belli. But here’s the thing: the previous examples were all small beer. Attacking the twin towers and the Pentagon was a huge event. Let’s say that an inter-service alliance within the US military-intelligence complex – and that’s what would be required – decided that they […]