Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] fire, they ‘cowered’ – as opposed to sheltering, which was what white men did. They ‘lounged’ a lot. Instead of shouting, they ‘hollered’. While Britain used ‘covert intelligence’, they ‘spied’ treacherously. Their attacks were ‘heartless’ and ‘cowardly’. They were addicted to ‘fighting, killing and treachery’, usually for lucre, or under the influence of ‘gat’ […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Hazel Blears and you can read it for yourself. Russell interprets his experience at the Guardian as a demonstration of the penetration of the media by the intelligence services. But as I wrote to his daughter, Amy, who nudged my elbow about this story: ‘Your dad’s piece, which he has already sent me, does […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had testimony from 36 victims. The US Attorney for South Florida at that time, Alexander Acosta, later claimed that he had been told that ‘Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to leave it alone’. The incredible deal that Epstein’s legal team, including Dershowitz, negotiated involved him being on work release for twelve hours a day. […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE
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[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 […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] chip against the USSR. 4 4 transported from Germany to Japan at that point in time, the US was aware, from its ability to read Japanese signals intelligence, that the Japanese Navy had a flotilla of aircraft-carrying submarines and were considering using these to carry out a long distance raid against a major target […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the civilian government of President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo. The CIA was said to be ‘trying to take over the drug war’ by making heavy payments to army intelligence, or G-2—the same institution that was Noriega’s stepping stone to power. The military was linked to death squads that were blamed for dozens of deaths or […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] West Africa. The ELF affair is written up in his previous book, Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil, which had large multinationals, the political and intelligence elites of leading nations, corrupt leaders of developing nations and slush funds administered offshore as ‘a great brothel where nobody knows who is doing what’. It […]

Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] way he has fascinating stories to tell about John Addey, James Sherwood, Joseph Godson, the Gang of Four and many more. He also had experiences of the intelligence services worth reading. 2 strange people indeed, and that their governments were scarred by petty personality feuding that probably damaged ‘Labour’ – New, Old or ageless […]

War on Terror Inc

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[…] 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, […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on paper? The most frequently used techniques were bribery, propaganda and manipulation. Phoney political movements and parties were created. This continued into the 1980s when the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) – allegedly, says the author – began funding one of the Islamic groups in Pakistan to spread Islamic literature among the Soviet republics with […]

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