The Mandelson legacy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] network that was the UK Government-supported BAP when his opposite number in the US was NeoCon Paul Wolfowitz, a key Republican ‘war on terror’ figure. Wolfowitz became Pentagon deputy to Donald Rumsfeld with a major role in planning and promoting the invasion of Iraq in the George W Bush administration. Mandelson was by then […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] of the William Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] too.)7 Item: who wrote this? If peace breaks out, defense contractors like Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin lose billions in profits. There are 7-figure jobs waiting for Pentagon brass who ensure that peace does not happen when they “retire” from public service. This is why the all willingly lied to the public about Afghanistan […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] too.)7 Item: who wrote this? If peace breaks out, defense contractors like Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin lose billions in profits. There are 7-figure jobs waiting for Pentagon brass who ensure that peace does not happen when they “retire” from public service. This is why the all willingly lied to the public about Afghanistan […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] during the Second World War, and (US Army General) Eisenhower’s special advisor on psychological warfare. Between 1953 and 1954, Jackson was President Eisenhower’s special liaison between the Pentagon and the recently-created CIA. On one fundamental principle, Jackson and Eisenhower were likeminded: psychological warfare was preferable to physical warfare, and decisively so in the age […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] ‘We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the or 11 12 or 13 14 15 16 17 18 3 attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq. swung American public opinion in our favor’. The Timeline tells us more about Netanyahu’s property magnate friend Larry Silverstein acquiring […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] themselves in the swamp like no other President before them. Jared Kushner, for example, has both ‘personal and financial entanglements’ across the Middle East. According to one Pentagon aide, every policy in the region was ‘examined for what it can do for him’. And as for Trump himself, he is ‘at once a symptom […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the Dog, a ‘threat’ from Albania is created. In the satire-proof America of 2013 the threat is North Korea. The Washington Post reported on 15 March: ‘The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country’s defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast […]

Money laundering in British football

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Bakiyev owed the state over $80,000,000 in unpaid taxes on fuel supplied to US military aircraft at the Manas air base when it was leased to the Pentagon for operations in Afghanistan. The Prosecutor-General said that Maksim Bakiyev diverted $35,000,000 of a $300,000,000 Russian loan for the construction of the Kambarata-1 hydro-electric project into […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little unit within the Pentagon, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. OSP’s role was to find or manufacture intelligence which would provide the pretext for invasion. […]

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