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... a contentious one, and not just in my school-yard. It was presented more along the lines of Obama's alleged hidden loyalty to Islam: a Catholic president, it was argued, would be subservient to his master in Rome. That Kennedy's own political strategists brought the issue into play, in order to appeal more to fair-minded Americans, reminds us that Kennedy was first and foremost a creature of politics, of power, and never a creature of religion. Yet when it comes to discussing his assassination, the most striking feature of those who propagate the official 'lone, crazed assassin' line is their omission of the crucial, wider issue of motive. The ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-46b.htm
362. Re: [Lobster #56 (Winter 2008/9)]
... 2006 (21) was seen by some as an indication that the US military was finally coming to understand the problems it had helped create in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not so, according to a recent RAND study. 'An examination of COIN doctrine and operations in the 1960s reveals that operations seldom matched written doctrine. Instead of winning hearts and minds, improving civil-military relations, conducting small-unit operations, and gathering intelligence, most Vietnam War commanders and units attempted to defeat the insurgency through large-scale operations and over-whelming firepower. Modern US COIN operations in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrate a similar preference for high-intensity war-fare and a similar inability to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-42.htm
... for invasion. When Saddam Hussein's daughter Raghad Hussein requested his assistance in 2004, Al-Ani consulted an international team of lawyers that found the Iraqi Special Tribunal set up by Paul Bremer to try Saddam Hussein had no jurisdiction. The UK legal team coordinated by Al-Ani argued for boycott of a nonsensical American show-trial single-mindedly aimed at convicting and executing the President of Iraq. Meanwhile, US lawyers Ramsay Clark and Curtis Doebbler decided to contest the case along with a few Arab and Iraqi lawyers, thereby lending the process a halo of legitimacy. While assembling the UK team Al-Ani discovered that most Western lawyers were reluctant to be seen defending a person ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-33.htm
... Amin, is the prime example of such official interference on the British front. Amin's investigation ( 'Operation Akin') was aborted, despite successfully closing in on the Khan network's operation. Reasons given at the time were to 'preserve diplomatic relations' and, of course, 'protect the ongoing intelligence operation. ' The former puts one in mind of official interference in the BAe /Saudi scandal more recently.(13) Amin was a seasoned British customs officer with previous experience in international operations. Unlike Edmonds, he was not a whistleblower. And this is what makes his contribution to this story so striking: Amin represented the objectives of the intelligence and customs agencies entering into ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-36.htm
... of Mother Earth? To be blunt, I don't know. Purely from the pages of Mother Earth, it would be difficult to discern a strong 'radical Right' ideology at work: would Cripps have been willing to join the Soil Association if this had been so? Of course, a careful decoding of the subtext might enable politically-minded readers to believe they could identify ulterior motives; Portsmouth and company presumably saw the Association as one means of promoting their vision of a regenerated Britain. And since the organic philosophy emphasises 'holism', it might be argued that Jenks's agricultural views could not be separated from his political convictions. Nevertheless, it seems to me that the organic ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-25.htm
... seemed like it with this one. Now let's jump cut three years to 2009. Frost/Nixon has become a movie(1 ) and it's getting more plaudits and praise than the last Big Thing (whatever that was). Here's what the film's website has to say: 'More than 45 million viewers hungry for a glimpse into the mind of their disgraced former commander in chief, and anxious for him to acknowledge the abuses of power that led to his resignation, sat transfixed as Nixon and Frost sparred in a riveting verbal boxing match over the course of four evenings. Two men with everything to prove knew only one could come out a winner. Their legendary confrontation would ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-12.htm
367. Sources [Lobster #57 (Summer 2009)]
... ) Foreign Policy in Focus on the issue of the demonisation of the Serbs during the Yug-oslav war. (3 ) One of the CIA's big Cold War psy-ops projects, distributing books and magazines into the Soviet bloc, has been revealed in participant John P. C. Matthews, 'The West's Secret Marshall Plan for the Mind'.(4 ) Douglas Valentine's 'How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA', is a self-explanatory trailer for his forthcoming book on the sub-ject.(5 ) A list of Valentine's published writ-ing is to be found at <http://members.authorsguild.net/valentine/> Russell's story ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 42 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-32.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 57) Summer 2009 Last | Contents | Next Issue 57 Secrets and Lies: A history of CIA mind control and germ warfare Gordon Thomas JR Books (www.jrbooks.com) 2007, h/b , £20 Reviewed by Phil Chamberlain Gordon Thomas has written a number of books on the intelligence services and this has a glossy cover, voluminous appendices and some admiring quotes. But it adds little to what we already know about the CIA's research into mind control. Further, it is hampered by a curious structure. Let's get the second part of the sub-title out of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-40.htm
... much too much to say that. Obama and the Bilderbergers Bilderberg is now a legitimate subject for the Anglo-American media. Stories about it have appeared this year on the CBS News website(2 ) and in The Times.(3 ) Has the Bilderberg meeting stopped asking for media silence? That would be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the 'crazy' concerns of 'conspiracy theorists',(4 ) this is a significant step for the major med-ia of America; and only fifty-five years after the group's inception. The Times piece adopts a more wry and amused ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-24.htm
... said in February in relation to the case of alleged torture of a British resident held in Guan-tamo Bay. This book is solely about Northern Ireland's recent history and it shows how that picture we have been given of it over the years has purposely been made more complex than the reality deserves and the above statement should be held in mind whenever reading this book. It is quite fair to say that everything I read or see about developments in North-ern Ireland has been given a new pers-pective. It is one that shows conclusively that the British government colluded with the murder of lawyers sympathetic to the republican cause in that province. Their names may be familiar ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-39.htm
