Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] love and peace Instrumental in the creation of a permanent war system – true to Orwell’s predictions, always called ‘peace’ – was the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency. Although officially the purpose of the CIA was to coordinate all the national intelligence activities for the executive branch of the US regime, this begs […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Goldman Sachs. The privatisation of public money in the West is thus more or less complete.’ 3 Fixing facts, faking history I think that the phrase ‘the intelligence and the facts were being fixed round the policy’, which was in the 2002 memo from Matthew Rycroft to a section of those managing the UK’s […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a High Noon every Wednesday way into the silly season and beyond. Here are a few samples from the prosperous Tory loyalist, a trusted member of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee and a central figure in party life from his splendid Westminster pad for more than 30 years. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Nowosielski, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the crimes of the war on terror (Hot Books, 2018) ISBN 978-1-5107-2136-4 44 9 range of senior US intelligence and law enforcement officials whose experience had led them to conclude that the threatened attacks could and should have been stopped long before September 11 2001. […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] published every year. SIS gave up all pretence to being a secret agency when it had that flashy new building on the Thames constructed for it. Former intelligence chiefs and former officers are now regularly interviewed by broadcasters. They have been dragged out part of the way into the light and have discovered that […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] companion’s identity in 2008 when he told US viewers of CNN’s Larry King Live show how he had ‘. . . asked for a meeting with the Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which I got with another naval officer who had had many similar experiences and we told our story and […]