Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] the management consultancy side of the original firm, they have the contract to re-jig the Federal computer systems for the new Home Security system so that the FBI, CIA and State Department can have access to each others data bases. This is in spite of the fact that the auditing side of the firm […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] newspapers. MI5 lost laptops! Le Carre was a spy! ETA are bad! Star Wars hack Donald Rumsford has ‘vast political experience’ and his credibility is ‘sky high!’ FBI spy Robert Hanssen was bad! (But no info about his specific badness, and no mention of the tunnel the Americans dug under the Russian embassy, or […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] here, but consider the following items, at least: Medellin trafficker Carlos Lehder testified at Noriega’s 1991 trial that the Medellin cartel gave $10 million to the contras. FBI informant Wanda Palacio told the Kerry subcommittee that she saw cocaine being loaded onto pilot Wallace Sawyer’s plane in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1985. (Sawyer and his […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
Dan Berger Edinburgh and Oakland (USA): AK Press 2006; £15 and $20, p/b The front cover of this history of the group shows a small group of the Weatherwomen, most with crash helmets on, carrying North Vietnamese flags, marching through Chicago to fight the Chicago police who were waiting in the centre of the […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
Peter Dale Scott University of California Press (paperback edition, with new preface) 1996, $14.95 ‘The key to understanding Deep Politics is the distinction I propose between traditional conspiracy theory, looking at conscious secret collaborations towards shared ends, and deep political analysis, defined as “the study of all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or […]