Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] In the Sunday Times of 5 December 1999 Stephen Grey reported: Tony Blair is under pressure from European leaders to support the creation of a ‘federalised’ EU intelligence service to help manage world crises. The move, proposed by Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, and President Jacques Chirac of France, is seen as the first […]

New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] that he ‘has been a long standing member of the Trade Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding’. Conclusion These are just some of the right-wing and intelligence efforts to suborn the trade union and Labour Party Right in recent decades. So, should anyone take notice of any of the above? Radical trade unionists […]

The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

Benny Morris London: I. B Tauris, 2002, £24.50, h/b   In report after report on the major media we hear about or see pictures of ‘refugee camps’ in Israel – and no-one ever explains from where the refugees came. Perhaps editors think we know already. Benny Morris is an Israeli historian who became well known … Read more

M. Fennema: “International networks of banks and industry”

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

Books International networks of banks and industry M. Fennema (Martinus Nijhoff, PO Box 2501, CN The Hague, Netherlands: Distribution in Europe by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Distribution for US and Canada by Kluwer Boston Inc. 190 Old Derby St., Higham, MA 02043, USA).1982 Very little academic work … Read more

There’s no smear like an old smear

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] who will be sent to work as Resident Operators and Control Agents in foreign countries will amount to about 230.’ Considerate of them to tell the counter- intelligence services of the NATO alliance, is it not? A decade later we find the same theme in J. Bernard Hutton’s 1972 The Subverters of Liberty (p. […]

Malcolm Kennedy: Application to European Court of Human Rights

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the body set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to hear complaints relating to conduct by the Security and Intelligence agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It also deals with claims under the Human Rights Act 1998, s7(1)(a) that a public authority has acted in a manner […]

Silent Coup: the Removal of Richard Nixon

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] the low-level functionary portrayed in his famous televised confession. Before becoming a journalist, Bob Woodward, of Woodward and Bernstein, had been a U.S. Navy ‘briefer’ with considerable intelligence connections, among them Alexander Haig. ‘Deep Throat’ was a device to conceal the fact that Haig was leaking to Woodward. (Or: Haig was ‘Deep Throat’.)’ One […]

Iran on the brink: Rising workers and threats of war

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] when a reactionary political movement grew out of what were legitimate workers’ struggles, not least because of the input of money and resources by various western pro-capitalist intelligence and ideological agencies. The numbers of those on strike has increased dramatically in the past few years. As the book says: ‘The current unrest signifies the […]

The British American Project for the Successor Generation

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] public relations campaign for the Kuwaiti government during the Gulf War. According to Covert Action, it is a company with strong links to the US security and intelligence community. Lloyd is the author of the anodyne history of the EEPTU, Light and Liberty (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1990). These are discussed in the next […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] and the following week; Guardian 16 July 1976; Searchlight nos. 18 and 21. 7. Private Eye speculated that the documents had been leaked by “moderates” inside British intelligence, alarmed at the activities of some of the “wild men”. This view, attractive though it is, has no evidence to support it. 8. Best collection of […]

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