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... to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines in 1935, a position he held until the Japanese occupation of the US colony. It took the surprise battle between the army of the PDRK1 3 and the surrogate army of US vassal Syngman Rhee to force the regime into its first major propaganda campaign since Pearl Harbor in 1941. Truman's officials claimed that communists had invaded the South — implying that they were anything but Koreans — and that the US was obliged to aid its man in Seoul by mobilising US forces to defend South Korea from the communists. The communists had already seized China and forced the Chinese into exile on the island of Formosa. There was imminent danger of all Asia being ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 88 - 06 Jun 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-flys-eye-view-vietnam.pdf
... in drug money in 2008? Does the fact that Japan exploited both Korea and Vietnam to provide cheap food for its industrial labour force have any bearing on the US decision to invade those countries when its official Asia policy was to rebuild Japan as an Asian platform for US corporations – before China became re- accessible (deemed lost to the Communists in 1948)? Did the importance of Korean tungsten for the US steel industry contribute to the willingness of people like Preston Goodfellow, a CIA officer in Korea, to introduce a right-wing Korean to rule as a dictator of the US occupied zone? Is there continuity between Admiral Dewey's refusal to recognise the Philippine Republic after Spain's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-disclosure-and-deceit.pdf
... , 'A gross media manipulation that has eroded public trust in Government', The Independent 14 May 2011. Page 52 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 * Obama as CIA? W hile the 'birthers' are still trying to prove that President Obama was not a legitimate candidate for president, and other sections of the American right believe Obama to be a communist/socialist/Muslim, former US intelligence officer, Wayne Madsen, has had a second, more detailed go at showing that, au contraire, Obama is a creature of the CIA.1 9 Madsen tries to show Obama's parents were either sponsored by the CIA (father) or worked for the agency (mother) and that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... say "So and so, so and so has been....is a member of the CP or has been a member of the CP, didn't renew his membership last year" or something like that. ' And Robinson would be liaising with MI5 to access its files. In the same essay, Saunders wrote of the Communist Party of Great Britain: 'In the international communist movement, the British party was a laughing stock, correctly assumed to be so 11 Script at <http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/ true_spies/transcripts/truespies_prog1.txt>. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 28 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... face of capitalist opposition. However what endeared Batista to many mainland Blacks was the fact that — at least in mainland terms — Batista was coloured.11 While the full force of Jim Crow persisted into the 1960s within the US, Batista's government (1940 – 44) had adopted and enforced anti-discrimination laws unthinkable on the mainland. Communists were members of the legislature and held important government offices — also unthinkable in the US. When Batista appeared in the US he did not shy from contact with Black Americans either. In 1952, returning from a sojourn in the US, he stood for President but then seized power in a coup that pre-empted elections. New ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 13 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-race-to-revolution.pdf
... The real point of this book are the chapters on events prior to the 1975 referendum on EEC membership. This is the best account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department (IRD), the quasi-independent anti- subversion, anti-communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in 'How the European Movement was launched' in Hirsch and Fletcher's 1971 Who were they travelling with? (Nottingham: Spokesman), which is now on-line at <http://www.wcml.org.uk/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 06 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-corporatist-racket.pdf
... That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 John Medhurst Winchester: Zero Books, 2014, £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party's Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP having 'an influence within the trade union movement vastly out of proportion to its numbers' (pp. 13/4 ); * the Institute for Workers' Control (chapter 3); * the decision of the Labour Party to abolish the proscription list ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 50 - 20 Feb 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-that-option-no-longer-exists.pdf
... use of astrologers to predict the market.4 From here it is only a step to the grim world of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) with its theories about 'Prosperity Theology', and routine defrauding of its adherents via continual cold-calling telesales. (Happily, though, the UCKG is strongly anti- communist.)5 It would be interesting (or not) to see written advice about how a heavily deregulated economy, driven by the private sector, can be relied upon to ensure 'a rigorous financial policy'. Small business goes bust The comments from McPherson and others about the economic difficulties that might befall the Scots after independence were undermined ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 26 Aug 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-apocryphylia.pdf
... or at least the subject of his study of the Vietnam Phoenix Program as 'terror and its role in political warfare'. He is generous, like most Americans — even critical ones — when he writes: 'It will show how, as successive American governments sink deeper and deeper into the vortex of covert operations — ostensibly to combat terrorism and Communist insurgencies — the American people gradually lose touch with the democratic ideals that once defined their national self-concept. This book asks what happens when Phoenix comes home to roost? '1 Valentine is generous to his readers since he ascribes to them ideals which while attributed to the US regime and naively held by many, in fact bear ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 17 Aug 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-phoenix.pdf
... any attempt to actually apply the preamble to the United Nations Charter.2 Domestically this 'Cold War' comprised both covert and overt action against any form of 1 James Byrnes (1882 – 1982) congressman US senator and governor of South Carolina, US Secretary of State under F D Roosevelt and H S Truman, ardent segregationist and anti-communist. Bernard Baruch (1870 – 1965) stockbroker, banker, chair of the War Industries Board under Woodrow Wilson and a principal political-economic advisor to Roosevelt and Truman. Walter Lippmann (1889 – 1974) US journalist and Wilson propagandist, author of Public Opinion, argued that the masses were not competent to direct public affairs and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 03 Jun 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-cold-war.pdf
