Death of the Strong Man

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] links to Nicaraguan Contra propaganda groups and right-wing organisations such as IGFM (right-wing rival to Amnesty International) and the Internationale des Widerstands (Resistance International), bringing together anti- communist ‘freedom fighters’. Following Swarup’s return from Geneva, the defence in the Gandhi assassination trial abruptly changed strategy and tried to depoliticize the case by passing the […]

America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] Soviet power blocs was due in part to a number of the early Zionist leaders also having good connections with the leadership of eastern European left and Communist parties. Much early military assistance for Israel, in the 1940s, came from Czechoslovakia. The murder of Bernadotte was organised by a small group that included Yitzhak […]

Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] McGovern wrote of this: ‘In early 1967, CIA analysts, led by a young analyst named Sam Adams demonstrated that there were more than twice as many Vietnamese Communist forces as the US military listed on its books. General William Westmoreland’s staff had reduced the numbers for political reasons. The general was adamant, so CIA […]

Nexus: postmodernism or what?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] in late 1956 on orders from William Casey……..Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that (sic) was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background. Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Morenschild, […]

The 1953 Coup in Iran: an Iranian insider’s view

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] in Rome and arranged the trip back to Teheran. It was us who encouraged the Americans to go ahead with the coup. If we had delayed, a communist coup would have stolen the show. Therefore, in order to rescue Iran from the grip of communism we decided that Musadegh had to go and the […]

The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] still felt in the 1980s) when the Tory right, briefed by a section of the British spooks, believed that the Labour Party and the unions were a Communist conspiracy and were thus ‘a legitimate target’. Oborne’s idea of ‘political’ simply does not encompass activities by the state, let alone the secret state. In one […]

British History and the British Right

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] In Porter’s interpretative sweep humanity appears almost completely at the mercy of uncontrollable economic forces. If Marx had believed this would he have bothered to co-author the Communist Manifesto or establish the First International? Notes See Bernard Porter, The Origins of the Vigilant State (London, 1987) and Plots and Paranoia: A History of Political […]

Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

DEEP BLACK: the secrets of space espionage William E. Burrows, Bantam Press, 1988 P. N. Rogers The National Reconnaissance Office is the only ‘black’ US intelligence agency remaining. Formed in 1960, the US only conceded officially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility of … Read more

Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] the Czarevitch. Others who supported Goleniewski’s lineage included the John Birch Society (through its journal American Opinion), the Philadelphia-based lay Catholic Order of the Carmelites (an anti- communist organisation), the conservative journalist Guy Richards, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and the Sovereign Order of St. John of […]

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