A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the alleged lead hijacker.4 That man, Mohammed Atta, was reportedly living in the home state of Graham and Goss while preparing to attack the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and whatever was the intended target of the fourth hijacked plane that day.5 Graham, a veteran legislator with a long interest in intelligence matters, was soon […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[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 […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] previous two.1 He has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with the assassination of Castro by an undercover operator on the island. The Soviets would be blamed, the populace […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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