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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 […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[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 […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The assassination conspiracy was leaky. And this suggests very strongly that we are dealing with something other than a professional job by the intelligence services or the Pentagon. It is hard to imagine the pros holding anything more closely than the assassination of a president.’ In the beginning I now can’t remember how I […]

War on Terror Inc

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[…] private is better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of […]

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 […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] who would have thought that James Watson, who ‘had earlier won fame for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA’, once served ‘on a secret Pentagon CBW advisory panel’. Hersh’s discussion of My Lai – he rightly calls it a ‘National Disgrace’ – is essential reading, although it was merely the tip […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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