[PDF file]: […] regime in perception management and propaganda. This is downplayed by Harvey, as is the avowedly revolutionary transformation in US strategy brought in by Donald Rumsfeld to the Pentagon. The centrepiece here was a declaratory policy of, if needs be, preemptive war.5 Harvey himself, and many other observers, agree that a likely Gore administration approach […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock A s I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell’ in Lobster 77.1 As a US presidential candidate in 1976, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. attended a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the aim of which was to seek official disclosure of the truth about the 1947 ‘Roswell Incident’. The other participants in the meeting […]
[PDF file]: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 Robin Ramsay 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 outside Lobster’s field. […]
[…] at . 4 5 6 Chauncey Holt, Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel (Waterville, OR: TrineDay, 2013) p. 158 ‘In November 1997 the JFK Assassination Records Review Board released Pentagon documents which, according to the Reuters’ report on this, show that “The Pentagon drew up plans to mount a bloody ‘terror campaign’ in the United States […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] cite Wikipedia. In this instance everything I quote from the Wiki entry on Skidelsky is third party sourced. 4 2 along that border – while bankrolling the Pentagon creature Volodomore Zelenskyy to break the 2014 ceasefire at every opportunity.5 How much of this is true? I looked at the biowarfare centres allegation. Such Russian […]
[PDF file]: […] The assassination conspiracy was leaky. And this suggests very strongly that we are dealing with something other than a professional job by the intelligence services or the Pentagon. It is hard to imagine the pros holding anything more closely than the assassination of a president.’ In the beginning I now can’t remember how I […]
[PDF file]: […] who would have thought that James Watson, who ‘had earlier won fame for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA’, once served ‘on a secret Pentagon CBW advisory panel’. Hersh’s discussion of My Lai – he rightly calls it a ‘National Disgrace’ – is essential reading, although it was merely the tip […]
[PDF file]: […] and, to no-one’s surprise, came up with a bigger ‘threat’, and thus the support for the increased expenditure on U.S. armaments sought by the neo-conservatives and the Pentagon and its satellite arms corporations.8 If the U.S. arms industry needed a bomber gap, a missile gap, or a psi gap, if the government needed a […]
