South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] The Register in 2001 . 32 See ‘Palantir knows everything about you’ by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson for Bloomberg at . 33 See ‘ Libya rendition case against ex-MI6 officer may be held partly in secret’ in The Guardian 4 May 2017 or . 34 At . His Oxford University email […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]

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[PDF file]: […] of Scotland Alex Salmond have surfaced three months after Mr Salmond publicly cast doubt on the official verdict on the Lockerbie bombing.’ 65 The official line on Libya is not the only one from which Salmond has strayed. He has become a loose cannon in British politics66 – albeit, like that other loose cannon, […]

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[PDF file]: […] allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. As, indeed, […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] followed possible. The Black Door inevitably has considerable discussion of Blair’s Wars. This is comparatively well-trodden ground. Of more interest is the account of Cameron’s war in Libya and attempted war on Syria. Both MI6 and the Defence Chiefs advised against intervention against Gaddafi, but Cameron went ahead anyway. While the pretext for intervention […]

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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of what […]

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[PDF file]: […] Rozoff, and there is little readily accessible on the Net about him, but he makes me feel lazy. Try his April essay on the NATO deployments against Libya, ‘Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command’, which lists all the countries involved and what they have contributed so far. For example, Bulgaria and […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

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[PDF file]: […] browser, eg Chrome. 3 Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, on York station. He didn’t mention his work with Sanderson […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: The deep politics of a hybrid regime1 Garrick Alder 1: A Psyop on the People One recurring phrase in commentary about the 2019 election of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is: ‘It was a case of life imitating art.’ After all, runs the boilerplate patter, Zelensky starred in a TV series about an obscure nobody who […]

Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by John A Nagl

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] can be confident that the peace that will follow the conflict will be an improvement over the pre-war situation’. Using these criteria, he considers military intervention in Libya and Syria as not being in US interests. Instead, the US should follow ‘a light-footprint policy of sending advisers and equipment in support of people fighting […]

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