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Lobster Issue

[…] yellowing hard copy of a two page spread in the Mail on Sunday in 2005 by Mark Almond: ‘If the Cold War is over why did the CIA buy the Ukraine election?’42 Almond stated: ‘The Americans alone gave pro-Yuschenko groups at least £50 million’. Nor does Skidelsky mention the evidence showing that the massacre […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] years younger, cochaired that joint inquiry, went on to sponsor the Patriot Act and loudly objected to an independent 9/11 inquiry before becoming Bush’s director of the CIA in 2004.7 Complex, difficult and painful If the mainstream media pay any attention to this month’s 15th anniversary of 9/11, I doubt there will be much […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] yellowing hard copy of a two page spread in the Mail on Sunday in 2005 by Mark Almond: ‘If the Cold War is over why did the CIA buy the Ukraine election?’42 Almond stated: ‘The Americans alone gave pro-Yuschenko groups at least £50 million’. Nor does Skidelsky mention the evidence showing that the massacre […]

Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] tone of US–Cuba relations since then. Officially the embargo was decreed because the new government of Fidel Castro nationalised assets claimed by US corporations.1 3 A special CIA focus — 12 Horne (2014), p. 267 13 Both the public ones (oil cartels, utilities, distillers) and the covert ones (e.g. organised crime syndicates who operated […]

Garrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] – prevented dark truths from being told’. (p. 53) Kendzior, who sees her job as investigating ‘the conspiracies of the powerful’, has earned her denunciation as a CIA agent, an agent of the Kremlin, a member of Hamas, of the Yakuza, of the IRA and of Al Qaeda. She has even been accused of […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] so low key and muted that the reader would hardly notice it; but even this criticism is soon deflected to the Commission’s inquiry agents, the FBI and CIA, and centres on what exactly Oswald was doing in Mexico City. Shenon argues that if the investigations there had been done properly evidence would have been […]

GArrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] yellowing hard copy of a two page spread in the Mail on Sunday in 2005 by Mark Almond: ‘If the Cold War is over why did the CIA buy the Ukraine election?’27 Almond stated: ‘The Americans alone gave pro-Yuschenko groups at least £50 million’. Nor does Skidelsky mention the evidence showing that the massacre […]

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