Introduction This, as some of Lobster‘s older readers will recognise, is a re-write of the essay I wrote on the JFK thing in Lobster 2, published on the 20th anniversary of the assassination in November 1983. This rewrite was written for the first issue of Casablanca, but it failed to appear. In JFK the Costner/Garrison … Read more
Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World James Bamford, London: Century, 2001, £20 Report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system) Rapporteur: Gerhard Schmid European Parliament, 11 July 2001 [Online in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format ~1Mb] In … Read more
I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – … Read more
[…] produced a book which is practically falling over itself to tell ever more astounding (and dreadful) tales of plots, “red’ and “black’ terror run by spooks, bombings, coup plans, assassinations and all the other goodies the Americans bought with the 100 million dollars or so they have spent there since the war. On second […]
[…] importance, likewise you should go for a substantial sum.’ Hounam said if Murrin acted to set up Oyston, he must be decisive: ‘It’s got to be the coup de grâce’ for Oyston. Murrin discussed his next meeting with Oyston in the taped conversation with Peter Hounam of the Sunday Times in which Hounam suggested […]
[…] big in the 1960s and after – this is an aspect of Lazards in New York we have not covered, though IT and T’s involvement in the coup in Chile is well known. (18) Ideological arguments are spouted to justify the large-scale plunder that is taking place, but monetarism is merely a facade behind […]
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
[…] to shame. He should also be given credit for quoting KGB files, in so doing discarding cold war paranoia (still prevalent if the official reaction to Costello’s coup is any guide) in the cause of sound scholarship. Despite all this it is difficult to avoid finishing the book without feeling disappointed. There are some […]
[…] establishment media praised Hitler and Mussolini in the most fulsome terms. This admiration was widely shared by business leaders. A small group of industrialists even plotted a coup against Roosevelt that would have established a Major General from the Marines, Smedley Butler, as a pro-business dictator. One of the most important and long-lasting legacies […]
[…] United States than most Americans are willing recognise.’ (p.21) ‘At about the same time in February 1948 when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was carrying out a coup d’état in Prague, rightwing forces in the southern half of divided Korea, then under the control of the United States, were slaughtering at least thirty thousand […]
