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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] Goodhart said that, ‘I did once hear that the services regard the Shiv Malik piece on 7/7 as essential reading inside the “security state”’ and added: ‘a Pentagon official once said the same.’ Goodhart went on to say: ‘if Hassan Butt has now been “exposed” as a liar and fantasist we were certainly not […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the Watergate burglary because two of its planners had engaged in a previous felony break-in, ordered by the White House, to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers. They were members of a secret ‘Special Investigations Unit’, created at Nixon’s orders to engage in burglaries, forgery and other crimes to discredit his enemies […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] army by almost three to one.’4 0 This was because Aegis, with strong input from Spicer, had won a contract in Iraq worth $293 million from the Pentagon, ‘… to co-ordinate security for reconstruction projects, as well as support for other private military companies, in Iraq.’4 1 By pure coincidence, at the time that […]