British Counterinsurgency by John Newsinger

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that disastrous campaign, we heard a fair bit of comment that the Americans should have listened to the Brits because the British state – its military and intelligence – is good at counterinsurgency.2 Newsinger’s account of British CI campaigns since 1945 shows that this is a delusion. With the exception of a couple of […]

The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a movie and fucked the writer. Would a script get you killed? Alford’s earlier book about Hollywood describes an entertainment industry in which the US military and intelligence are thoroughly integrated, a system in which a really radical script simply wouldn’t get made. So who would bother to kill the writer when a word […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] or impacts upon democracy. It might, for example, examine all the state conspiracies which now exist within this society; and since the armed forces, police, security and intelligence services (and the big corporations) are almost entirely unaccountable, such research would be entirely apt. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that the […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] much truth as possible’, it isn’t just the Castro Cuban commies who must be scrutinised, but everyone who associated with the alleged assassin, including the anti-Castro Cubans, intelligence officers and others who became entwined in the assassination story. It is pure speculation on Shenon’s part that Oswald even read the news reports of Castro’s […]

Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a third party buried in a book mixing fact with faction. But many of the witnesses in other versions of the story can be portrayed as unreliable: intelligence officers of one stripe or another, for example, or the anti-Castro Cubans, and assorted military and right-wing activists, all of whom have axes to grind. If […]

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[…] as though there has been some big shift; and in a sense there has been. I am no longer collecting every scrap of information about the British intelligence and security services in the way that I did once. Why not? A number of things have come together. Firstly, it no longer seems as important. […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] involved his lawyers (one of whom was Alan Dershowitz) but also the FBI (then headed by Robert Mueller). Acosta later said that he had been informed by intelligence sources that Epstein was an asset and to go easy on him. Acosta went on to serve in the Trump administration as Secretary of Labor. Not […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The so-called ‘colour revolutions’ in the former Soviet satellites are presented as unproblematic with no hint of covert US influence conveyed. The political weight of the military-industrial- intelligence complex in US domestic politics is not mentioned. But these are relatively minor details in the broad sweep of his narrative. In the end, after the […]

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