War on Terror Inc

Lobster Issue

[…] will be the decision by the American state – with its British chum tagging along behind, as per usual – to privatise much of its military and intelligence services; essentially to surrender its monopoly on the use of violence for political ends. Why did the US and UK military and intelligence agencies, qua agencies, […]

War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] will be the decision by the American state – with its British chum tagging along behind, as per usual – to privatise much of its military and intelligence services; essentially to surrender its monopoly on the use of violence for political ends. Why did the US and UK military and intelligence agencies, qua agencies, […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] wealthy since the late 1950s.33 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.34 Using allies in the press, politics and higher education, these forces have fought a war for the accumulation […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the Cold War gathered momentum. The Western allies began to work hard to loosen the Soviet grip on eastern Europe and to this end British and American intelligence now started to back the OUNUPA struggle against Moscow. They provided logistical support and more Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Ratlines: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] in late 1982 when I was on leave before ending my Naval career. I was one of only two officers in Northwood with access to top secret intelligence signals relating to the Belgrano sinking who had taken redundancy.’ The other officer was also burgled, his house ransacked and nothing taken. Even Francis Pym MP, […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the trilateralist framework to establish a more united front against Third World radicalism and greater détente with the Soviets. The ‘Prussians’, in contrast, consisting of ‘military officers, intelligence operatives, Cold War intellectuals, arms producers, and some domestic capitalists’, opposed détente and pursued a more militarist approach to Third World radicalism.11 Other contributions to this […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

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