Rogue State, and, Globalize This!

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] his own earlier books (in 43 pages!); the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the CIA’s former psyops and political action programmes in light drag; surveillance and the Echelon story; the CIA and drug trafficking; and so on. In short, Blum has managed a kind of summary – with documentation – of a large chunk […]

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John Maynard Keynes and the Anglo-American Special Relationship: a Reinterpretation

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

See note(1) The Conventional Wisdom It is generally assumed that the economist J. M. Keynes was instrumental in establishing the post-war Anglo-American economic relationship. The argument is that, along with the US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Harry Dexter White, Keynes created the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now … Read more

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Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

Introduction I write this as a member of ‘old Labour’, and like others of that ilk, I am looking for a way out of the present farce-cum-nightmare of a Labour Party lead by a tiny group of not very bright Thatcherites.(1) To understand where we are now, we have to go back to the 1970s. … Read more

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Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew nothing … Read more

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Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The HSCA, however, concluded that Oswald never went to Taiwan and remained at NAS (Naval Air Station) Atsugi as part of the MAG-11 (Marine Aircraft Group) rear echelon unit. From page 220 of the HSCA report: ‘It has been stated that Oswald claimed to have served in Taiwan. The committee’s review of his military […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Technologies is the data analytics company that was founded by PayPal creator and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Their software uses the same principle as the ‘Five Eyes’ Echelon system of keywords to trigger flags.32 Palantir software looks at, amongst other things, ‘emails and browser histories, GPS locations from company-issued smartphones, printer and download activity, […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] while manipulatory cunts using actors such as party organisers, mass organisation leaders, propagandists and covert operators — in short academics — would appear in the elite upper echelon gaining prestige and influence: taking on the appearance and vocabulary of top cunts. Here we need only drop hints that academic cuntologists, like Hayek, could be […]

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