The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] that many senior U.S. officials privately viewed the war as an unmitigated disaster, contradicting a chorus of rosy public statements from officials at the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department, who assured Americans year after year that they were making progress in Afghanistan.’ The various war plans ‘had fatal flaws’ and the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Alliance and Daszak declined to comment for this story.’51 This article did not refer to the report that EcoHealth Alliance had received nearly $40 million from the Pentagon which it had tried to ‘bury’ in its accounts.52 So: the man whose organisation is funded by the US military and who has been working with […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[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

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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 […]

Hollow Hegemony

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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. […]

Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

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[…] 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, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in the world. It appears that no-one actually knows, in part because no-one can agree on the definition of ‘a base’. ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at The most important research currently available on NATO and all its doings is that by Rick Rozoff at and many […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

Lobster Issue

[…] 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, […]

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