Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] 2). To all intents and purposes, Stark appeared out of nowhere in 1969. Details are equally thin after 1970. Stark was arrested in Italy in 1975 on drugs charges; at his trial he refused to recognise the court and claimed to be a political prisoner. In prison, Stark gave the authorities what appeared to […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its forms. What […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operated out of a base in Cyprus. Coleman alleges that the DEA is supervising, and the DIA is manipulating, the drugs and arms trafficking which is a part of the currency of power in the Syrian-dominated part of Lebanon, as well as Syria itself. He tells us […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Volume 20 of Research in Political Economy, edited by Paul Zarembka, titled ‘Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists,’ (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration’s foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott’s essay is : ‘The United States since … Read more
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
See note:(1) Did Staff D feed the Oswald-Kostikov lie to the CIA? Abstract: There exist at least four successive versions (or falsifications) of Silvia Duran’s so-called statement of November 23,1963, to the Mexican DFS (Dirección Federal de Seguridad), about her interviews of Oswald in the Cuban Consulate. The successive changes mirror the shift in the … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] the Clinton scandals the way there are Kennedy buffs? Maybe one would get in touch and explain to me how much of it is true. Mena, Contras, drugs in and guns out, Barry Seal, Lasater, CIA – youthful Governor Clinton taking pay-offs to turn a blind eye to…..That much seems to be true; some […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] subjects that there were or all types where plenty of subject material could be had . The very latest “ideas” would be used including electro-shock, lysergic acid, drugs, electroencephalograph, hypnosis, etc., etc. The old “Bluebird” idea of an interrogation team would, of course, be done away with since these experts could administer the drugs, […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] out coincidence, no matter how bizarre. I immediately connected this conversation with the things Pat had told me; in particular, the story about knowing someone who smuggled drugs and arms seems too similar to the line this man had taken for it to be a coincidence – again, no matter how bizzare. Dennis Robertson […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998, $15.95 pb ISBN 0-520-21449-8 This is a revised and updated version of this book which was first published in 1991 (and was reviewed in Lobster 24). Since that first edition we have had the great furore over the 1996 stories published in … Read more
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] gun-running and – the holy grail – nuclear material smuggling. A ‘senior police officer’ was quoted in the Observer, 6 November 1994: ‘It’s very easy to present drugs and organised crime as a threat to national security particularly because of Eastern Europe. There the threat of armoured divisions has been replaced by the threat […]