The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] into consumer goods and now is shifting fast into capital-intensive sectors based on high technology. The upshot has been rapid creation of a powerful telecommunications and artificial intelligence industry. China is in the vanguard of nations developing 5G technology, seen in the success of Huawei in penetrating international markets. This economic expansion has facilitated […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in Washington DC. The missing DIS documents comprised a standard background check performed on Wallace, who was applying for a job with a defence contractor, which two intelligence officers told The News had been present in his file in 1961 but were apparently removed later. The file also contains a letter to the FBI […]

The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Men Who Stole the World, 5 he has this towards the end of the prologue: ‘Offshore connects the criminal underworld with the financial elite, the diplomatic and intelligence establishments with multinational corporations. Offshore drives conflict, shapes our perceptions, creates financial instability and delivers staggering rewards to les grands — to the people who matter. […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] from the leaking of US National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools which fell into the wrong hands – known as the ‘Shadow Brokers’ – in 2016. US intelligence sources thought there was North Korean as well as Russian involvement with what happened to the leaked tools which, when used by the miscreants, caused global […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] proposed rule changes. I am sure this exercise will have involved at some point party staff too, herding their constituency delegates in the right direction and sharing intelligence on the recalcitrant. Largely because of the lukewarm response from the trade unions, McSweeney didn’t get everything that he asked for, but the changes that were […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is five years before Dr King was murdered, and while President Kennedy and his brother Robert were still in office. October 15, 1963 On this date, FBI Intelligence Operations chief William C Sullivan disseminated a memo. In it, he announced the completion and imminent circulation of a dossier entitled ‘Communism and the Negro Movement […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Church and Pike Committees had never met. Even Mr Panetta, who is commonly depicted as a new broom at Langley, has been part of the so-called intelligence community for more than thirty years. ‘Witches’ and ‘miracles’ There is a very strong cognitive – I would say religious and dogmatic – construct shared throughout […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the limelight but Richard Nixon can be observed hovering in the wings throughout this section, clearly taking notes. There is a delightful vignette in which a military intelligence officer was called before McCarthy’s subcommittee and testified that he had a conversation with a CIA officer who stated (‘flatly’) that it might become necessary to […]

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