The Darkest Sides of Politics I & II by Jeffrey M Bale

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Project Coast, its exploration and use of chemical and biological weapons; and an account of the Unification Church (the ‘Moonies’), the Korean CIA and the World Anti- Communist League – all fine pieces of detailed parapolitical work. And then 9/11 happens and Bale sets out to explain On-line at or . 3 For volume […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] essay I glanced at, US Army officer Michael Ferguson’s short piece ‘The Evolution of Disinformation: How Public Opinion Became Proxy’.69 (Proxy?) Ferguson reminds his readers that the Communist International ran propaganda against the West and that the KGB created the Michael Lind, ‘The debunked “Russian influence” nonsense is infantilizing liberals’ at or . 67 […]

Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon and the growth of dual use anthropology by David H. Price

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] across the world and at home. Book publishing, art, psychiatry, academia, student organisations, political parties, newspapers, magazines, charities and motion pictures were all incorporated into this anti- Communist crusade.1 And so was anthropology.2 In the first half of his book Professor Price assembles what is now known of the CIA’s (and the Pentagon’s) activities […]

More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] that allowed trusted interlocutors to side-step belligerent generals and committed political adversaries, without any of the complications of democracy. Monarchs also tended to share Hitler’s virulently anti- communist views.5 In the Hess case, we should note that after his second conversation with the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke came to London (15 May) and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] a superpower and a clear guarantor of peace. He does not see any threat to England from the Soviet Union, just as he does not see a communist threat in his country in general. In the meantime, good relations with such a country (i.e. if the Soviet Union views him, Hayward, as a major […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the House of Lords (after being a Brexit Party MEP) is too striking to pass without mention. Both began their political lives as members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, whose remnants went way beyond parody when they accepted funding from the Koch brothers.63 A detailed account of this strange saga is to be had […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] of NuLab at the top of greasy pole in 1997 was just business as usual. Since the early 1950s America had programmes to talent-spot throughout the non- communist world and promote the rising politicians it thought would support its interests. That Uncle Sam would do this here isn’t surprising: this island was its most […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] American actions against Cuba, Che’s death and the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Brazil. The CIA’s people in the literary field believed they were promoting the non- communist left (NCL to use the Agency acronym), and nobbling those deemed to be too comm-symp (such as Neruda), with material aimed at the actual and potentially […]

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