Lobster Issue 53: Contents

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] is clearly the seminars given to the New Labour government-in-waiting by Andersen Consulting, the people who signed-off on the accounts of Enron, the shysters’ shysters. And Gordon Brown has been at the centre of this; this has been his project at least as much as happy-clappy Tony’s. For all that New Labour people think […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more

The view from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] – or was about to become – Chair of the Labour Friends of Israel were simply untrue. I have never sought or wanted such a position.’ Gordon Brown also apparently has the interests of Israel close to his heart. A report in the Jewish Telegraph 27 June 2003 described Gordon Brown addressing the annual […]

Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] the British secret state was, I presume, its financial support by Libya. It seems clear that contact with Libya is taken very seriously by our spooks. Ron Brown MP had visited Libya and he has now been discredited as a result of his affair with Nona Longden. Brown claimed some months ago in the […]

Why are we with Uncle Sam?

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] America, along with the central economic and cultural concepts which are in our politicians’ heads: no bigger fans of all things American have there been than messieurs Brown and Blair following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher.(3) Since Suez in 1956 no UK government has ever tried to find out how much real independence […]

Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] the veterans of D-Day who then voted Labour in such large numbers in 1945? Lucas also prompts many thoughts along the way. Why, for example, does Gordon Brown spend so much time in the company of Rupert Murdoch’s Neocon American pal Irwin Stelzer? He also is not, as some reviewers have suggested, harsh on […]

Yo, Blair!

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] May 2006) opened with this: ‘The long arc of Tony Blair’s rise and decline has been punctuated by journeys to Washington. He went there first with Gordon Brown in January 1993……’ Which is wrong, of course. As was reported in The Observer, Blair first went to Washington in 1986() and returned from his six […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] examines the US military’s heavy reliance on PMCs (Private Military Companies) to help with the provision of essential support services in Iraq. In the vanguard is Kellogg Brown and Root, which just happens to be a subsidiary of Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton. Particularly heartening is the final paragraph: ‘If conditions in Iraq continue […]

A political journey

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] and not later was the time to strike. It is now more likely that New Labour will begin to respond to dissenter concerns, starting with the Prescott- Brown initiated debate about regional democratic government, acceptance of the need for a proper debate about Europe, signs that ‘excluded’ individuals are to be welcomed back into […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] the lawful order while ignoring those communications which they are not authorized to intercept…the Carnivore device works much like commercial ‘sniffers’ ….'(www.fbi.gov/programs/carnivore/carnivore2.htm) Stop Carnivore http://www.stopcarnivore.org By Lance Brown. What is Carnivore; What can it do; Check your ISP for Carnivore; Carnivore-free ISPs; privacy protection software; campaign against Carnivore. Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act […]

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