Michael Ledeen again

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] ‘He was very concerned about getting along with the administration…… and “playing along” really meant to sustain the conceptions of the policy makers – particularly at the Pentagon and the Vice-President’s office – that Saddam Hussein was a real and imminent danger. ‘To do that, you had to accept some of these alarming reports […]

Why are we with Uncle Sam?

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] administration. (2) Young asked Cook why the British government supports the US so slavishly. ‘Because of the Ministry of Defence’s fanatical determination to keep close to the Pentagon. They will never do anything that puts that relationship out of line. The truth is that it is the pivot of all military careers and a […]

Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] a natural order – or at least, should be made so. Hence, as we have also discussed, the efforts of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney at the Pentagon to establish the pre-emptive principle as a part of the US strategic furniture. Despite mounting near-unilateral military efforts in Iraq and the Balkans, the doctrinal case […]

Deception

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] was helping the USA in its war with the Soviets in Afghanistan, and (b) US arms corporations were making money selling weapons systems and planes to the Pentagon which were being passed on to the Pakistan military as part of the price of co-operation in ‘the war on terror’. In short: Pakistan acquired the […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Sir Michael is among a number of senior British commanders who are said to question Britain’s backing for a US invasion of Iraq, and are sceptical of Pentagon claims about Saddam Hussein’s links with the al-Qa’ida terror organisation and his stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.’ (1) Even more off-message On 25 January 2004 […]

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] day after the article was printed Pravda published a long article on the Generals’ revolt in which it said that the mutiny was encouraged by NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA. (18) The rumours on April 22nd were launched cautiously by “a minor official at the Elysee Palace itself”, according to Crosby Noyes in […]

The Assassination of John Kennedy: An Alternative Hypothesis

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] at least three others missed. I find it difficult to believe that any of the powerful elements in the US state apparatus – the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, for example – would have felt it necessary to ambush Kennedy if they just wanted to get rid of him, or change some of his policies. […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Bush overturned America’s 25-year ban on state assassinations, giving the CIA permission to eliminate individuals designated by the President. He comes across the Grey Ghosts in the Pentagon (‘a private army of professional assassins’(28)) and briefly examines the slashed wrist death of journalist Danny Casolaro. However after due consideration – and talking to individuals […]

Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] there for all the family, David. Icke sounds surprised at being ridiculed. He might find sympathy from William R. Lyne, the author of Space Aliens from the Pentagon. In a flyer for his excellent catalogue Flatland,(2) Jim Martin comments: ‘Whatta title. Lyne claims info on man-made saucers, Nazi tech, CIA disinfo on free energy […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] local sentiments: Pir Baksh Bardiwal, the intelligence chief for the Eastern Shura, said that he would welcome a massive influx of U.S. troops. He believed that the Pentagon planners were making a grave mistake by not surrounding Tora Bora. A U.S. journalist who was there, Philip Smucker, claims that the treachery of the local […]

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