Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] government of Panama at Fort Clayton.33 Its pro-U.S. leaders – President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Ricardo Arias Calderón and Guillermo Ford34 – had won a popular vote the previous May as heads of the Democratic Opposition Civic Alliance, which enjoyed strong backing from Panama’s financial sector. However, Noriega’s electoral commission annulled their victory, […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] of the two versions of the complete document I found online this version is the more clearly laid out.) January 2011 Dear Reader: Would it affect your vote if you learned that the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper was a CSIS operative in the late 1980s and early 1990s? This interesting-but-not-scandalous information (as once described […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] magazine profile of Brown with the Brown described by Steve Richards in the Times diary (22 March). ‘The Chancellor could be difficult and, days before a big vote on tuition fees, Richards was warned that the chancellor would be “tense”. Surprisingly, when Brown arrived, he started gleefully embracing the entire film crew. “He couldn’t […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] ‘Remainer’ and ‘Brexiteer’. Norton-Taylor’s preferences slot predictably onto both axes. Apropos of not much, the book is shot through with barbs about the foolishness of the Brexit vote. Norton-Taylor’s principle arguments for the EU – support for the European Arrest Warrant and greater sharing of data – look to be at variance with his […]

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