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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 5) August 1984 Last| Contents| Next Issue 5 Things Israeli Extracts from what are claimed to be CIA analyses of Israeli intelligence services found when the US embassy in Iran was taken have been published in Imam, October 1983 through to May 1984. 17 pages in all. To this untrained eye they look genuine; ie dull enough to be genuine. There is nothing that strikes me as startling in them, but, if indeed genuine, they confirm some of the picture of the Israeli services which has appeared in various books. At one point (March extracts) the report confirms the claims made in Anthony Pearson's Conspiracy of Silence ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-08.htm
... oil and gas. An even more pertinent source of information concerning the subject of this article is the April 2000 report by the Senior Fellow for Strategic Assessment in the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Professor Anthony H. Cordesma. (1) This report summarised analyses of energy developments in Central Asia, the Caspian and Iran provided by the Energy Information Agency (EIA) of the US Department of Energy (DOE). Cordesman had previously been a director of policy and planning in the DOE (indeed, he had held many other prestigious positions within the US Administration). At this point it should be noted that all following quotes are taken from the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-35.htm
... Lockerbie: The Flight from Justice and Allan Francovich in his 1994 film The Maltese Double Cross.1 This new book not only gives us al-Megrahi's story, but enormous detail about Lockerbie drawn from Ashton's encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject. It is not the author's intention to prove who was responsible for the fate of Flight 103, though he is clear that Iran, Syria and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command were involved. But he leaves us in no doubt that the culprit is not the one still portrayed by many in a position to know differently as 'the Lockerbie bomber'. Ten days after the Maid of the Seas disintegrated early in its flight from London to New ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 07 Jun 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-lockerbie-1988.pdf
... of the Taliban; the American-led assault on Iraq in 2003 and the ensuing civil war; the overthrow of Gaddafi and ensuing civil war; the attempt to do the same in Syria and ensuing civil war. Finally Cockburn gets to the rise of ISIS, which he spotted very early on, and the present chaotic situation with Saudi Arabia and Iran funding proxy armies and NATO member Turkey assisting ISIS and attacking the Kurds (who are fighting ISIS). The major theme here is this: as happened in the former Yugoslavia, if your reference group – family, tribe, community – are threatened, it doesn't take much for mutual mistrust between communities to turn to paranoia and then ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 10 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-chaos-caliphate.pdf
... I am 100% certain sure that the Americans were behind the increase in the price of oil. The oil companies were in real trouble at that time, they had borrowed a lot of money and they needed a high oil price to save them."' 'He says he was convinced of this by the attitude of the Shah of Iran, who in one crucial day in 1974 moved from the Saudi view, that a hike would be dangerous to OPEC, because it would alienate the US, to advocate higher prices.' 'Yamani: "King Faisal sent me to the Shah of Iran who said, 'Why are you against the increase in the price of oil? ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-32.htm
... which the idea of authoritarian dictatorship- hitherto anathema in a country with one of the most democratic records in Latin America- became respectable.(5) The campaign against Allende became known as one of 'destabilisation'. This was a new term but the tactics were mostly tried and trusted variations on a theme already played successfully for example in Iran, Guatemala, Ecuador, and British Guiana over the preceding generation. (6) For years it has been said that the CIA was implicated in the fall of Allende and Chilean democracy but much of the evidence was based on oral testimony and newspaper reports by well-placed journalists. The released documents, which are referred to by Anthony Summers ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-08.htm
... officials are nearly blind to conspiracy theories-- the belief that complex plots are planned out by shadowy but omnipotent forces-- Middle Easterners discern them in the merest accidents.... [and thus] neglecting conspiracy theories can lead to a profound misreading of that region....'. He declares that 'The shah of Iran and Anwar as-Sadat lost their countrymen's respect because both were (wrongly) seen as agents of Washington.' Wrongly, huh? Depends on how he is using 'agent'. Do I think either the shah or Sadat was an actual case officer-run U.S. intelligence 'agent'-- no, I don't. But neither, I'm pretty ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-03.htm
... It is conclusively demonstrated by Mearsheimer and Walt that neither oil companies nor US military aggrandisement generally caused the 2003 war. Rather, without having to fight itself, it was Israel achieving its long term goal of the removal of Saddam Hussein and the cessation thereby of Iraqi funding for various troublesome Palestinian groups. The remaining target now for Israel is Iran and it is known that an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities as well as the selective assassination of key Iranian personalities are being considered.(10) What is the alternative scenario? Mearsheimer and Walt conclude that the current cost of US policy and the danger that it poses to the US itself is counter-productive in the extreme and must ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-09.htm
... paragraph from page 25. 'When post-colonial regimes took the wrong political turn they generally did not last long. Official records from 1953 show that in British Guiana, the elected socialist government was overthrown by British and CIA terrorism in order to secure the flow of cheap sugar and bauxite. That was a busy year. The elected nationalist government in Iran met the same fate; claiming ownership of the nation's oil resources was beyond the pale.(24) British governments supported repression and killing in Uganda, Chile and South Africa. In Vietnam in the 1960s, unknown to Parliament and the public, British SAS troops fought alongside American "special forces".' Pilger's footnote refers the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-17.htm
... discuss the Cuban missile crisis, but not the equally serious crisis over NATO access to Berlin, for which the Pentagon offered a slate of nuclear options. Lyndon Johnson differentiated himself from his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, over the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during his presidency. President Carter raised the possibility of a nuclear attack on Iran during the hostage crisis. President Reagan presided over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear weapons against Libya. The second Bush administration threatened the use of the same nuclear weapons during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the Obama administration contemplated their ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 13 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-nixons-nuclear-specter.pdf
