Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] these high-level cover-ups was nothing less than the CIA’s basic strategy for the containment of Communism in East and South-East Asia, which (as documents published with the Pentagon Papers have confirmed) relied heavily on the opium growing KMT troops of the Burma-LaosThailand border areas and their contacts with the pro-KMT secret societies in the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] . 4 5 6 Chauncey Holt, Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel (Waterville, OR: TrineDay, 2013) p. 158 2 ‘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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] and gave up. That material is on a disk somewhere. Truth is, I could never take the US-did-9/11 thesis seriously, because of the targets: Manhattan and the Pentagon. I just could not imagine any US conspirators deciding to attack those locations. Had it been Disneyland, or some provincial city, OK. But not those towers […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As 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 and […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with those who embrace identity politics, whether they are on Wall Street or in the Pentagon. They are the useful idiots of the billionaire class, moral crusaders who widen the divisions within society that the ruling oligarchs foster to maintain control.13 Thus […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] The Guardian, 6 November 2004 at ; ‘Secretive US embassy-backed group cultivating UK left’ in UK Declassified, 25 November 2022 at or . Paul Wolfowitz, the neocon Pentagon Deputy Secretary at the time of 9/11 events, was previously the chair of the US committee of the British American Project. 21 or 22 13 Labour, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . in vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. *new* The Economic League In Lobster 28 I reviewed Mike Hughes’ Spies at Work, in which he pulled together the fragments […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] President Kennedy practised nuclear brinksmanship twice: the authors discuss the Cuban missile crisis, but not the equally serious crisis over NATO access to Berlin, for which the Pentagon offered a slate of nuclear options. Lyndon Johnson differentiated himself from his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, over the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during […]

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