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... Orwellian land to a much more American dystopia in the style of Philip K Dick. In Dick's novels, doors refuse to open because your swipe card lacks the necessary credits; they lecture you in a mechanical voice, devoid of emotion, repeating endlessly their own market logic: it is the voice of Hazel Blears, speaking from the interactive surveillance cameras that will soon oversee all our lives. The Mr. Blobby face of Blears represents the next step in the Blairite evolution of Thatcher's Britain, into a never-never land where up is down and left is right. Winston Smith is now the prototypical Englishman. As a foreigner, I haven't even the rights Winston enjoyed. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-13.htm
... of the battle to find the log books of HMS Conqueror and the evidence the contained conecrning war 'preplanning'. 'Gladio' and NATO's Terrorist Network. Investigating the allegations of NATO involvement in terrorism. Gulf War Launches 'New World' Order'. Ex-CIA chief agent Phillip Agee's comprehensive analysis of American military operations. Economic League: Political Surveillance. Including an unpublished essay by the League on the State of the Left, Anarchists and Greens. The Cancer Business. The scandal of surpressed cures. Also: Stockwell review; "Greeens in conflict"; War & the Media/Spectacle; CoIntelPro; "Operation Censored"; Permaculture; CIA & the drug trade; Palestinian ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-16.htm
... An important new development on the assassination of Martin Luther King has appeared. A paper called The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tennessee, reported that the U.S . Army was working with right-wing and racist organisations in operations against the civil rights movement; specifically that special forces personnel returning from Vietnam were assigned to carry out the surveillance of Dr. King and his colleagues in the days preceding his assassination. This is discussed in an interview with Mark Lane in Flatlands (see above) and also in Lies of Our Times (July, August 93), from 145 West 4th St New York, NY 10012. Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-07.htm
... objectors appearing at the Sizewell B inquiry. This agency was later revealed to be Zeus Securities, the brainchild of Peter Hamilton, a man with formidable establishment credentials and a long background in MI6. Zeus, then operated by ex-MI5 officer, Jeremy Wetherall, of another security firm, Lynx, was given the contract to organise the surveillance, which they sub-contracted to Sapphire Investigation Bureau, run by Barrie Peachman. The story of Peachman, his use of the unsavoury far rightist, Vic Norris, who claims to have set up dummy peace groups, and Peachman's suicide three weeks after the Murrell murder, is well documented.(19) 'The nuclear bruderbond' ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-11.htm
... story without giving the plot away; but I can perhaps safely say the story concerns a mission, by the US military, to document the CIA's involvement in the drug traffic in Laos during the Vietnam War. It is an enthralling read, the narrative rattles along, and the account of the climax of the mission and exfiltration of the surveillance team after a fire-fight with the Viet Cong is nicely done. It reads like a thriller - and would make a good movie, I suspect - but is apparently true. Whether or not the allegations contained herein are true, I have no idea and there is no way of checking. The ambiguity of the book's format ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-06.htm
... the American war machine has been preparing for forty years to neutralize street antiwar protest. ' (p . 180) The deep state watched the anti-war protests of the 1960s and resolved 'never again'. 9/11 was the green light for the deep state to move into action: warrantless arrests, no fly lists, mass surveillance, data mining, and anti-terrorist 'fusion centres' of military and civil organisations. If deep politics is 'all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged', as the deep state grows so does the repressed, the unsayable. Almost nothing of substance is now said by American ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 28 Feb 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-american-deep-state.pdf
137. Feedback [Lobster #55 (Summer 2008)]
... called 'a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers' (Washington Post, 3/1 /02; Scott, Road to 9/11, p. 237) who decamped with Cheney to the COG bases outside Washington. What I argue is that they implemented now familiar programs which we know dated back to the 1980s: warrantless surveillance, warrantless detention, suppression of habeas corpus, and possibly the preparations for use of the U.S . Army in domestic security matters. The creation of NORTHCOM represented a significant break with the past in this respect. My apologies to Peter Dale Scott. I read his book when I first received it and then wrote the review ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-36.htm
... new title, The British Intelligence Services in Action, it has become a modern classic, is virtually impossible to now locate, and still compares well with subsequent volumes by Martin Dillon, Paul Foot and Fred Holroyd. Only weeks after publication, the book's printers mysteriously burned down in Dundalk and for many years Lindsay was subjected to harassment and surveillance. Possibly for these reasons he had withdrawn from the public forum for some years past and developed a highly successful, hi-tech, academic book distribution business, still in operation at the time of his death. Harry Irwin Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-10.htm
... found himself unable to get further employment. He believes that he was given the black spot by Grosvenor. Over ten years later, apparently trying to get him to shut-up about being blackballed by Grosvenor, a campaign of harassment began: a car rammed into his house, computers wrecked, threatening phone-calls to his children, surveillance, phone taps etc., much of it witnessed by third parties. He has gone the formal route – police, MP – without effect. He thinks the secret state, the police and members of the Labour government are protecting Grosvenor. The documents he presents at the address above show that the police and pols are certainly dragging ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-16.htm
140. Re: [Lobster #56 (Winter 2008/9)]
... 'How to do things with security post 9/11', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 28 (2 ), Summer 2008, pp. 317-342. Background information on Operation Kratos can be found here: <www.met.police.uk/docs/kratos_briefing.pdf > CILIP survey on police, surveillance and libraries, June 2008 <www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5D5E95C2-513C-48F2-BD2E-6B97DAC65AEA/0 /CILIPPSLSurveyresultspublicjul08.pdf > For more on the impact of the 'War on Terror' on UK libraries, see John Pateman, 'Libraries and liberty', Public Library Journal, 23 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-42.htm