Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Ms Kutyakova may have come into contact with local US intelligence officers before the Russian invasion. On 20 January 2022, she presented a video made by known CIA front USAID, promoting entrepreneurialism among Eastern Ukrainians. See (video archived at ). In April 2021, Ms Kutnyakova had been helping to run an ‘IT hub’ in […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] a Senior Fellowship at the University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Other Senior Fellows at the Institute include General Graeme Lamb, the US General Stanley McChrystal and Robert James Woolsey, a former Director of the CIA. John Newsinger A new, revised and expanded edition of Newsinger’s British Counterinsurgency is out in October, published by Palgrave.
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] said. It transpired that not only had Daghir resisted the deal and been pushed into it by his US supplier Dan Supnick, acting in concert with the CIA, but that the capacitors were below standard for detonating weapons, nothing more than might be used by a professional photographer to power his flash-lights. Before the […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] asked by President Bush on 12 September 2001). The propensity of senior US figures to hold such views has been remarked on by Michael Scheuer, a former CIA official, who is quoted on page 58 about the intellectual proclivities of Wolfowitz, Bush and others: Europe-Asia-Africa a determining factor? If so, how should the rest […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals John Rodden Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017
John Rodden is one of the foremost authorities on both George Orwell and the New York intellectuals, most particularly Irving Howe. He is the author and editor of a number of books on Orwell, and his […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions: Allan Flanders and British industrial relations reform John Kelly, New York/Abingdon: Routledge: 2010, £70 (h/b) Lawrence Black By the 1960s Allan Flanders was amongst the foremost industrial relations experts in Britain. A key figure in the ‘Oxford School’, he sat on the government Commission on Industrial Relations, provided key […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department counts for little. It was by-passed in the 1950s by the paramilitary (CIA) and the military (Pentagon). The US State Department exists as a kind of cover story for America’s military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] assassination researchers, Mellen does not take this seriously. In her case, this is presumably due to a career-long support for Jim Garrison whose inquiries focused on the CIA. Nonetheless Professor Mellen has written a very good book, thoroughly documented and full of interesting and new bits and pieces.1 1 If you haven’t read Robert […]