Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] wealthy since the late 1950s.34 In the British case it was given a helping hand by elements embedded within the state, notably the military and security and intelligence agencies, reluctant to embrace the end of Empire.35 Using allies in the press, politics and higher education, these forces have fought a war for the accumulation […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] work of the victims’ families. 2 3 testimony – as does J. Michael Springmann, a State Department employee in Saudi Arabia who was pressured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into giving visas to some of the alleged hijackers. Nafeez Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of […]

David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] example, the IRC certainly ran ‘purely humanitarian programs’, establishing refugee camps, providing shelter, food and healthcare. But other areas of its activity ‘were directly tied to the intelligence community’. The IRC ran the camps while the CIA trawled them for intelligence sources and for recruits for the various paramilitary outfits it ran. And, on […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on paper? The most frequently used techniques were bribery, propaganda and manipulation. Phoney political movements and parties were created. This continued into the 1980s when the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) – allegedly, says the author – began funding one of the Islamic groups in Pakistan to spread Islamic literature among the Soviet republics with […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it quickly became clear that the sophistication of the identified Ames strain of anthrax in the letters meant it could only come from within the military and intelligence apparatus of the US itself. So with al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein off the list of suspects, the FBI began the hunt nearer home. MacQueen recounts the […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Those seeking a stronger antidote in these dark times can turn to Footnote 8 continued: However, The Washington Post will not knowingly disclose the identities of US intelligence agents, except under highly unusual circumstances which must be weighed by the senior editors.’ When I returned from the United States to work at The Guardian, […]

Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] story and the ABC trial in the 1970s; a detailed account of the hassles generated by the trickle of books which began in the early 1960s about intelligence during WW2, notably the Bletchley Park ‘ultra’ story; and the farcical events around Peter Wright’s Spycatcher. If the theme and the major incidents are familiar, much […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] faction in the CIA, within that covert operations wing. They formed ‘the Safari club’ and resumed their activities entirely off the books with their equivalents from the intelligence services of France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Iran. This was funded by the Saudis; and, Scott thinks, largely by the mechanism of skimming off the […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for Grand Theft Auto’. According to ex-LASO detective Preston Guillory, Manson was never arrested ‘because our department thought he was going to attack the Black Panthers’ ( intelligence had revealed Manson’s shooting of Bernard Crowe). Guillory told O’Neill: ‘I believe there was something bigger Manson was working on. Cause a stir. Blame it on […]

Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon and the growth of dual use anthropology by David H. Price

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – and ultimately failed – to detach the AMA from state influence and introduce professional limits on research which could be of use to the American military- intelligence state: the dual-use anthropology in the book’s subtitle. The final chapter has an elegiac tone to it as Price contemplates the state of US universities today. […]

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