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... (Issue 50) Winter 2005/6 Last| Contents| Next Issue 50 Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite Tim Pendry Given a WTO-driven free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its forms. What happened between the mid-1990s (when the great debate on post-Soviet security took place) and today cannot be defined solely by the threat of terrorism. 9/11 provided merely an ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 22 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-23.htm
... warned about the dangers of such experimentation, but the CIA persisted in this practice for at least another ten years. Despite another report, by the CIA's Inspector General in 1963, recommending the termination of testing on unwitting subjects, Deputy Director for Plans, Richard Helms continued to advocate covert testing on the ground that 'positive operational capability to use drugs is diminished, owing to lack of realistic testing...we are less capable of staying up with the Soviet advances in this field.'(11) On the subject of moral issues in connection with covert human experiments, Helms commented, 'We have no answer to the moral issue'.(12) In response to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-06.htm
73. Sources [Lobster #40 (Winter 2000/1)]
... British section of the International Workers Association. Who they? you ask. That I don't know. Details at http://www.directa.force9.co.uk Heavy weather An impressive reworking of the evidence that the Libyans did not kill WPC Yvonne Fletcher was published in Squall and is- or was- on their Website at www.squall.co.uk/ yes/ind2. html Drug wars and Another view of the Afghani mujahiddin funding their war with the Soviet Union by selling opium- with the complicity of the US- was in 'Britain's secret army' by Tom Carew in Sunday Times 13 August 2000. Spectre Spectre has been plugged before in these columns as one of the more interesting anti-globalisation, anti-corporate control magazines- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-21.htm
... but, in that period he makes a convincing case. Big Brother Becomes a Reality in West Germany Chris Pounder, Computing 28 June Very interesting (and rather alarming) account of where we are heading in this country. West Germany's surveillance/computer network described in detail. Pounder is the man in this field in the country. Books Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organised Crime in Australia Alfred McCoy (Harper Row, Australia 1980) McCoy was the author of the seminal Politics of Heroin In South East Asia (US 1973) which documented US involvement in the opium traffic of the Golden Triangle and got McCoy into trouble with the CIA. But this volume is exactly what its ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Nov 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue06/lob06-09.htm
... serious harassment and intimidation. At a House of Commons meeting, campaigners described their experiences. The meeting, on September 17 2003, was chaired by John McDonnell MP, and included speakers involved with high profile campaigns. Kevin McMahon, of Merseyside Against Injustice, joined the Merseyside Police in 1979 and subsequently worked as a detective, working on drugs, vice and murder, and as a Special Branch officer. He had formally been a special investigator in the Royal Military Police. He described how, as a serving police officer, there was no protection when he refused to carry out tasks he was ordered to do by a senior officer, including perverting ID parades, concocting evidence ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-32.htm
... Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) .( 1) An overwhelming case can be made that the CIA has been the most dangerous terrorist organisation at work in the world since the Second World War. It has over-thrown governments, sponsored wars, carried out assassinations and terrorist attacks, organised and financed death squads, kidnapped and tortured, trafficked in drugs and weapons, bribed and blackmailed, and even worked with the Mafia.(2) Despite this it remains a 'respectable' organisation, listened to by Western governments, maintaining stations throughout the world (including in London) and is treated by the mainstream media as a credible intelligence-gathering organisation. In Britain, its agents were not, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-09.htm
... by the politicians, unsupervised by anyone, still- we are not supposed to laugh- still accountable to the Crown not Parliament( i.e. to no-one). Both MI6 and MI5 have reacted to the new conditions post Cold War in thoroughly competent, even creative ways. Needing something something to justify the budget, MI6 picked the international drug trade. Far as I know, since MI6 joined the 'war against drugs' the price of cocaine and heroin in the UK at street level has halved: it is now cheaper to get off your face, as they say in Hull, on smack than it is on alcohol. And didn't I read a few months ago that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-27.htm
... mainly on the paraphernalia, research and minutiae of a big libel trial leaving in their wake more loose ends than a Gordian knot. Aitken had a classic Tory background. Eton/Oxford, inherited Beaverbrook wealth, writing speeches for Selwyn Lloyd (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) at 19 etc. He was also a libertarian, calling for drugs to be decriminalised, conducting numerous high society affairs and surviving an Official Secrets trial in 1969, having revealed too much about whom Britain was backing in the Nigerian civil war. After a brush with Slater Walker he got into the House of Commons in 1974. And then? Well- not very much, publicly: 18 years on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-17.htm
... first edition- Jones, Castillio, Sirhan Sirhan- is retained. Bowart goes into greater detail on electro-magnetic spectrum bombardment, on Jonestown and Waco as government-sponsored 'cults', on supposedly corporeally-implanted mind control 'transmitters', and- at great length- on the notion that large numbers of Americans and others have been converted into mind-controlled sex slaves and drug runners via systematic 'satantic abuse' during childhood. The new book is 686 pages and I have not fully digested it. The E-M, ELF, VLF, microwave etc. stuff is technical and difficult to comprehend (and there is little by way of footnotes or annotations). Nevertheless, the assertion that electrical fields and microwaves can ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-09.htm
... ...Your fucking ceasefire's going....I'll be in touch with you fucking soon....You watch your fucking car. On 9 February 1996 the IRA ended its cease fire by bombing Canary Wharf. In the warning period minutes before the explosion, Mickey Steele's Essex phone rang. It was RUC Special Branch in Belfast, posing as IRA drug runners. They'd begun ringing, with threats, the day before. They pointedly told him CW had just blown, minutes after it happened....RUC were assisting Essex police to put pressure on Steele (eventually with death threats) in the hope that he might provide information to help their (Essex) ongoing December 1995 Rettenden Triple ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-15.htm
