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[…] Republicans stealing the election for George W. Bush. (Remember the hanging chads in Florida?) There were also pilots who could not believe the plane that hit the Pentagon could have been flown so fast and so low. However the majority thought the Twin Towers were obviously demolished by explosive charges. Among the early advocates […]

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[…] Republicans stealing the election for George W. Bush. (Remember the hanging chads in Florida?) There were also pilots who could not believe the plane that hit the Pentagon could have been flown so fast and so low. However the majority thought the Twin Towers were obviously demolished by explosive charges. Among the early advocates […]

Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] to viewers of CNN’s ‘Larry King Live’ programme that his growing belief in a UFO cover-up at Roswell had driven him to seek an audience at the Pentagon: ‘Well, I eventually went to the Pentagon and asked for a meeting with Or would have worked, had the Soviet Union been conducting nuclear tests prior […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] if it provided military aid to Israel.108 (emphases added) Golan alleges that Kissinger mislead Israeli Ambassador Dinitz with claims that the shipments were being ‘sabotaged by the Pentagon’, with Deputy Secretary of Defense, William Clements (a Texan oil magnate), later singled out as the scapegoat.109 And yet, all the while it was Kissinger who […]

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[…] populist backlash termed “the revolt of the public” by former CIA analyst Martin Gurri for an act of war. And it received the full backing of the Pentagon, the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, […]

Hollow Hegemony

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Contents Lobster 58 Hollow Hegemony Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 I shouldn’t be reviewing this book: I am not qualified to do so. What do I know about international relations theory, which is what this book is about? And, in any case, its subject matter is really […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] were ‘a two-man obstacle to just about everything President Trump wanted to get done. They were perfect representations of the establishment rot that had taken over the Pentagon’. They were ‘rogue actors who tried to destroy the Trump agenda’, mounting ‘many covert attempts’ and launching ‘a negative PR campaign against President Trump’. And General […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

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