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[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext Clint Watts and Andrew […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] move with RFID (Nashville (US): Thomas Nelson, 2005) 15 warehouses. In an article written after the book was published, the authors report tell us that ‘Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre’;16 and the US government has begun producing passports with […]

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[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. Clint Watts and Andrew Weisburd, ‘How Russia Dominates Your Twitter Feed to Promote Lies (And, Trump, Too)’, August 2016, at or . 7 4 The […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . help, posed absolutely no threat to anybody (except, possibly, himself). He was, however, encouraged in his fantasies regarding Jihad by the undercover officers involved in his surveillance. One of the more ridiculous aspects was that, ‘Rahman said he couldn’t fund the attack because he was “broke and homeless” – but he handed over […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on Fascism, which study the movement as a whole, Griffiths’ book concentrates on individuals, and how particular British Fascists or fellow-travellers reacted to the war with Germany, surveillance by the state, and the threat of internment. In his conclusion, Griffiths states that the responses to the changed situation after the declaration of war were […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext of ensuring “election integrity”. […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is unclear why it was filed alongside Johnson compiled a dossier on what he knew of Nixon’s treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon’s go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called ‘X-Envelope’ to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now dead, Rostow handed this […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). 2 using redundant Cold War MI5 spooks and electronic surveillance by GCHQ. The outcome of ‘intelligence-led policing’ by undercover spies and police ghost squads was a three-way ‘investigative train crash’ in Manchester, involving the National Criminal […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] taxi. I expect that the North Koreans train their own spies in the use of multiple modes of public transport as an established tactic in mobile counter- surveillance trade-craft. What conclusion might they have come to on learning that it seems like Mr Gratton had used this exact same tactic? Mr Gratton is a […]

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