The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Times 16 August 2009. 5 In ‘The Crime of Lockerbie’ in The Spokesman no. 105, 2009. Page 90 Winter 2009/10 Page 90 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Former CIA officer Robert Baer said: ‘Your justice secretary had two choices – sneak into Megrahi’s cell and smother him with his pillow or release him…. The end […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] was economic nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the victims’ families. 2 3 testimony – as does J. Michael Springmann, a State Department employee in Saudi Arabia who was pressured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into giving visas to some of the alleged hijackers. Nafeez Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] tells us that in Italy in 1948 the Communists lost the election. About that election, ‘There were (and are) cries of “foul”, because of covert activity by CIA men such as Michael Ledeen or Edward Luttwak, who knew the country well.’ If he isn’t claiming that Ledeen (born 1942) and Luttwak (born 1941) were […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose successor William H Webster finally returned it four years later. However, if this is the case, the question of why the CIA might have been interested in secret documents on the death of a member of the Royal Family remains unanswered. Afterword Briefly mentioned in contemporary news coverage […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] information about the status of the world economy from anyone This was the real source of conflict between United Fruit and the Arbenz government that led the CIA to overthrow the Guatemalan president in 1954. It was also the reason why Fidel Castro nationalised assets of major US corporations: they had refused compensation based […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] RT=Richard Tice, at the time, co-founder with Banks of Leave.EU / RE=Richard Edwards, a friend of Banks from Bristol) goes thus: March 7 Wikileaks release ‘Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools #1’.12 March 9 Farage visits Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy. March 10
 The Guardian publishes a piece by Marina Hyde titled ‘With Farage, Assange […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] by his bosses to gather information on drugs and narcotics and asses their potential as weapons. This assignment was part of Operation Artichoke2 set up by the CIA in 1951. Another of Beecher’s objectives was to identify scientists who could be recruited for secret work back in the US. Schmidt then goes on to […]

View from

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[…] head by academia and journalists whose careers would be in jeopardy if they began inquiring in the wrong areas. Central to all this was the notorious 1967 CIA 4 memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate […]

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[…] by academia and journalists whose careers would be in jeopardy if they began 4 inquiring in the wrong areas. Central to all this was the notorious 1967 CIA memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate I […]

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