Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Blood Year, an assessment of what Western strategy has achieved. The picture is pretty grim: ‘In the northern summer of 2014, in less than 100 days, I SIS launched its blitzkrieg in Iraq, Libya’s government collapsed, civil war engulfed Yemen, a sometime small-town Iraqi preacher named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself caliph, the latest […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

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[PDF file]: ‘We’re doomed!’ A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks Nick Must The broadcasting by the BBC during the Christmas period 2015 of a comedy drama based around the creation of the Dad’s Army television series, reminded me of how the Home Guard were used during World War II as the cover for a […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘ Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after the folk music lefties as part of its campaign against the Communist Party (CP). At […]

Livingstone, Zionism and the Nazis

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[PDF file]: […] Israeli outrage committed in that period. Soon after taking up his new post, he was interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show (1 May) on ‘the anti-Semitism cri sis’ in the Labour Party. and not Mann who was suspended from Labour Party membership shows what Corbyn is up against. Not only are there are many […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] possible intelligence background. Regardless of that, watching through the whole series recently, I spotted a some interesting moments. Firstly there was the amusing spectacle of seeing an SIS stringer in Malta portrayed as having an Austin Allegro as his work-provided drive! (This was quite likely true, for the late 70s, but still highly amusing.) […]

The Atlantic Semantic

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[PDF file]: […] suicide, and the young Jeffrey Archer’s by-election win, left the job undone, so we tried again, many years later; and this further chance was lost.’ 2 (empha sis added) Cavendish had been an MI6 officer. He worked with George K. Young in the UNISON Committee for Action, a militia formed as one of the […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] possible intelligence background. Regardless of that, watching through the whole series recently, I spotted a some interesting moments. Firstly there was the amusing spectacle of seeing an SIS stringer in Malta portrayed as having an Austin Allegro as his work-provided drive! (This was quite likely true, for the late 70s, but still highly amusing.) […]

The View from the Bridge

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The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. […]

President Putin and Sochi 2014 PR

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[PDF file]: […] virtuous reminder of the then Soviet Union’s wickedness, President Putin’s Russia can promote Tolstoy’s genius in the same way as the UK loses no 2 See ‘The SIS and London-based Foreign Dissidents’ in Lobster 65. 3 Over the next eighteen months, those wishing to monitor the UK’s view of President Putin, which may/may not […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

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See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

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[PDF file]: […] there had been over many years about wrongdoing at Kincora. The HIA Inquiry’s assertion that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora was further undermined by a report in The Sunday Correspondent newspaper on […]

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