The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at the Hague notwithstanding, go back many decades and indeed were supported by the USA when they were pursued by the Nationalist Chinese government prior to the Communist takeover in 1949.12 The expansion of Chinese naval power in the region is designed to deter the US, which has assembled and deployed a formidable maritime […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.13 In one of their earliest cases, Williams hired Maheu to investigate a politically charged murder case involving U.S. intelligence agents and communist partisans in World War II Italy, involving $100 million in lost Allied gold. The case, which had major political implications in Italy, interested the CIA deeply. […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the British state’s anti-Soviet propaganda organisation IRD could be cited in the defence of the Soviet Union. IRD manufactured disinformation about the Soviet Union and ‘the communist threat’. A recent article on the organisation, based on recently declassified files, begins with this: The British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, […]

[PDF file]: […] from Amazon and all good bookshops. 34 11 could be cited in the defence of the Soviet Union. IRD manufactured disinformation about the Soviet Union and ‘the communist threat’. A recent article on the organisation, based on recently declassified files, begins with this: The British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, […]

View from the bridge

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[…] of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western countries. These files showed that the USAF had been hopelessly infiltrated by communists in the 1950s and 1960s. The […]

View from the bridge

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[…] of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western countries. These files showed that the USAF had been hopelessly infiltrated by communists in the 1950s and 1960s. The […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a dupe, rather than simple Soviet mischief-making. This disinformation was surfaced in Italy, a country about which the Americans were still paranoid, believing that it might go communist at the drop of a hat and dominate the Mediterranean. So from a Soviet point of view, they got two “hits” for the price of one: […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] revolution was apparently very much on the agenda, way back in the 1960s and 1970s. Then the country was in the grip of ‘industrial anarchy organised by communist conspirators’ (p. xvi). This might seem somewhat perverse as he also considers Britain at this time to have had a ‘socialist economy imposed by Labour governments […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] See or . 51 Artem Iovenko, ‘The ideology and development of the Social-National Party of Ukraine, and its transformation into the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”, in 1990–2004’, in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 48, no. 2/3, 2015, p. 230. (not archived). 52 19 Parubiy resigned as NSDC secretary in August 2014, for reasons that have […]

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