Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue

[…] engages, America is always right, well intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. ‘Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy.’ If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

Lobster Issue

[…] which mainstream media outlets in the West did not discuss in much detail. This was the country’s place in US global strategy. As early as 1992 a Pentagon defence planning document explicitly stated that the main objective of US security policy should be ‘to obstruct the emergence of any potential rival – “either on […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted little attention initially, a nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to commit a terrorist atrocity and blame it on Cuba, to provide the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] but there is something else here. The US State Department counts for little. It was by-passed in the 1950s by the paramilitary (CIA) and the military ( Pentagon). The US State Department exists as a kind of cover story for America’s military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by the cables which show […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Hugh Gaitskell, was in the Scottish capital from 1968 until his retirement from the foreign service in 1971. 2 His younger son, Dean Godson, a former US Pentagon official and now a Tory peer, is director of the ‘think-tank’ Policy Exchange. 3 Discussed in Tom Easton, ‘Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent’ in Lobster 47. 3 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue

[…] of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and far northwestern China. Later that spring, orders came down to stop […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘relentlessly turned the Bible into a manual of atomic-age combat’. He went through the Book of Revelations ‘mechanically transcribing every phrase and image into the vocabulary of Pentagon strategists’.18 It has been argued that Reagan, who claimed to be an admirer of The Late Great Planet Earth, was actually influenced by these prophecies while […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] let alone all the still secret stuff – this is sort of surprising. But perhaps it hasn’t been trying. Perhaps the large increase in funding for the Pentagon bought off the ‘deep state’. * Related to the above, I asked Google AI for use of the term ‘deep state’ and inter alia it offered […]

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