The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and under proper supervision so that we never cross over…..’ Remember, the US was coming out of Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of our buddy […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] I guess there are limits to what Times readers can be expected to digest over breakfast. Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] I guess there are limits to what Times readers can be expected to digest over breakfast. Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: […]

Misc reviews

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[…] Cinema Propaganda, politics and paranoia David Ray Carter 9 in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate era. www.worldheadpress.com How things have changed! Not so long ago ‘conspiracy cinema’ would have meant Hollywood movies from the 1970s such as the Parallax View or […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] I guess there are limits to what Times readers can be expected to digest over breakfast. Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] £60m to Boris Johnson’s party over ten years, new analysis by Transparency International shows.’ 26 10 Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: […]

Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Labour government. Prime Minister Wilson knew this, which explains his (failed, disastrous) attempt to tackle them head-on. And it really wasn’t, as he has it, ‘the British Watergate’: that epithet must surely go to the anti-Labour operations of the 1970s, about which he says nothing. The 80 pages on Pincher and the D-notice Affair […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] essentially a cover story. The context The mid-1970s was a turbulent period for the Anglo-American intelligence and security services. In the United States, in the wake of Watergate the CIA was under scrutiny by Congress and journalists as never before. CIA officers, notably Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti, revealed details of the Agency’s operations. […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] controversially 87 George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, (New York: Vintage Books, 1998), p. 463; and Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), pp. 184-185. 88 Russ Baker, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] £60m to Boris Johnson’s party over ten years, new analysis by Transparency International shows.’ 25 10 Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: […]

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