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, […]