Policing the Future

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] not descend upon the working class ghetto in order to find the person who had stolen Mrs. Smith’s wages (it was probably Mr. Smith anyway!). Apart from murder, the violence of which is always a serious threat to the State (15), the police only went into working class areas in search of those who […]

The rise of warfare capitalism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] the reluctance of the Left to criticise the ANC in South Africa after its bloody suppression of its dissident faction from 1984. This involved the rape and murder of ANC dissidents both in the notorious Quatro gulag run by the MPLA in Angola and in Cuban prison camps. In this way did the ANC […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] began running interference for MI5 at the Wapping gulag. I wrote to Mr Greenslade pointing out these earlier events but to date have received no reply. The murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher Joe Vialls’ exploration of this murder – which he thinks he committed, while under some kind of mind control – has taken […]

Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] first discussed the same deals (San Francisco Chronicle, 1/6/87, from Washington Post Wire). Shortly before his death in July 1986 – which many believe to have been murder (Executive Intelligence Review, August 1, 1986, p. 47; Los Angeles Times, June 12/13, 1987) – Hashemi also offered to help the government gain release of the […]

The Man from the FRU

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

Suffer the innocents? The Stevens inquiry into Britain’s state assassination policy in Northern Ireland in the 1980s began in September 1989. The police officers who signed up for it didn’t think it would take long to do. ‘We thought it was going to be a fairly routine investigation. We didn’t expect to find that there … Read more

The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] By Rachel Zoll Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP) – A white serial killer who traveled the country targeting blacks, Jews and interracial couples pleaded guilty today to the 1978 murder of a black man in Chattanooga. Joseph Paul Franklin, 47, now has been convicted of killing seven people and is suspected in ten other murders. He […]

PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] the Christian population and other groups are airbrushed. In addition, it has excelled at ‘bouncing responsibility’: For example Iraqis, it claims, were to blame for the shameful murder of Shia cleric Abd al-Majid Khu’i whose memory has since been traduced because he accepted CIA money. The truth is that this vital, courageous man returned […]

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] never published in the US, though copies were placed with Ramparts, W.W.Turner (22) and the Garrison inquiry. Of the Kennedy assassination de Gaulle said in 1964: “Kennedy’s murder will involve all sorts of consequences. Blood calls for blood. America is becoming less and less a stable country, one that can be relied on. It […]

Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted kidnaps and several undercover surveillance missions. One of these operations, in March 1974, is the beginning of the Stalker saga – an attempt by […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more

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