Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran Dr. Roger Cottrell Preamble In November 2011 claims emerged of an unlikely assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US.1 According to the FBI, an alcoholic car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s Revolutionary […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby 1 Matthew Zarb-Cousin In his 1956 book The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills illustrated the way in which the elite work together, are interconnected – both socially and in business – and therefore take each other into account when they make decisions….. Rupert Murdoch and the financial sector […]
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[PDF file]: […] “MI5”. Pincher says it was a group of MI5 and ex MI5 personnel. David Leigh (Observer 15 September 1985) has hinted that among those involved was Peter Wright, one of the leading figures in the campaign against former MI5 head Roger Hollis. Wright is obviously one of Pincher’s major sources for his last two […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Details of the tax agency’s remarkable leniency emerged in 1964 hearings held by a subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Small Business, chaired by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, to study the impact on the U.S. economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts. The subcommittee’s study director, H. A. Olsher, struggled to deal with […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] the security services. They decided to use the Northern Ireland intelligence apparatus to smear Wilson and others. That was 12 years before the former MI5 officer, Peter Wright, made similar allegations. Mr Blake Knox’s depiction of me as a ‘professional fantasist’ is a contemporary example of disinformation, an attempt to discredit my initial and […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] provision in the US Constitution that the President must be a native-born citizen. 8 The most useful definition of the term ‘Establishment’ is probably found in C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956). correctness’ can so easily be appropriated throughout the outer party – that is in both the Establishment […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] deal of new detail. The CIA’s role in getting Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago published in the West is described; as is the Agency’s encounter in Paris with Richard Wright and James Baldwin. They were both initially promoted by the CIA until they noticed that the Agency’s people were only interested in their criticisms of the […]