Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: Trump, the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. She […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] classical and jazz music critic, as well as an intelligence officer. That profile fits Henry Pleasants, another Philadelphian who served in the OSS during WWII. Pleasants debriefed Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen and became the CIA officer in Bonn, Germany, after the war, all the while writing classical and jazz music reviews. In their book […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] classical and jazz music critic, as well as an intelligence officer. That profile fits Henry Pleasants, another Philadelphian who served in the OSS during WWII. Pleasants debriefed Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen and became the CIA officer in Bonn, Germany, after the war, all the while writing classical and jazz music reviews. In their book […]

More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] and proof that Hess was most likely an eccentric acting without wider authorization. In fact, by seeking a direct meeting with the King, Hess was following established Nazi practice, as can be seen by looking at other instances where this approach was used: DENMARK – April 1940. Germany invaded Denmark at 4am on 9 […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] strongly interventionist New York Post ran a series of sensational stories accusing Walsh of visiting a homosexual brothel in Brooklyn that was said to be infiltrated by Nazi spies. Walsh was secretly gay, putting him in a precarious position. Nonetheless, he denounced the stories and demanded a full investigation. The FBI actually cleared him […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] process. After 1933-34 unemployment in the USA and the UK did start to fall and recovery became evident in much of Europe by the mid-1930s. But ( Nazi Germany being an exception) high levels of joblessness continued to exist and activity was erratic. Contemporary economic theory Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1845), Marxist Internet […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must for proof-reading help with some of this edition of Lobster. Grauniadia I received this from a correspondent of mine. A link I sent some of you yesterday morning was to a short Guardian beneath the line (BTL) comment I made in response to a piece by Labour MP Jess […]

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