Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] famously not only about voting). Page 37 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 mean there was no US interference (which would probably have to be run through the British embassy, as the US have no official base in Tehran).2 0 Consider two less-discussed events around the June 12 election: first, there has been much talk about […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] US sought the extradition of al-Liby and al-Fawwaz, as well as Abdel Bary and Ibrahim Eidarous on terrorism charges: at least three were in connection with the Embassy bombings. The Blair Government protected them all – the previous John Major Government granted al-Liby asylum in 1995. In that year, al-Liby’s LIFG joined forces with […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] returned. Not even true lies One of the Wiki releases from the US State Department is a 2006 briefing paper (06MANAGUA1002, NICARAGUA’S MOST WANTED) from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, which details the life and high crimes of Daniel Ortega. How much of this is true? Given the level of disinformation produced against […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Deane Hinton says, ‘I’m personally convinced Endara is an honest man.’ . . . But even Hinton’s own staff is incredulous, creating a deep rift inside the embassy. ‘Just how long can Endara play dumb’? asks a dissident U.S. official. ‘Evidence is sufficiently strong so that a broad sector 63 El Siglo, August 23, […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] day’s proceedings. See or . 5 Maule Ramsay was interned on 23 May after evidence emerged of him having a close relationship with Tyler Kent, a US embassy employee who was obtaining confidential US and UK communications. After Ramsay’s arrest, Lord Marley obliquely referred to him in the House of Lords as the Nazi […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as innocent as he claims. And – the final straw – how could he be said to be ‘unlawfully detained’ when he detained himself? (In the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid extradition.) Well, my longish piece of about a year ago explains pretty clearly, I think, how and why.1 I’ve little to add […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]

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