Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] on standby by the Allies at the end of WW2 in case a war with the Soviet Union broke out; and were thus a disposal problem. A labour shortage in the UK in the immediate post-war years enabled MI6 to bring them into the UK as ‘workers’. I enjoyed this book but I knew […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] class finds itself in, not least when it comes to religion and the threat of a US-led invasion. Despite Islam being the ideological underpinning of the repressive labour (and other laws), most Iranians remain Muslims and would want any political changes to respect that. This accounts for the comparative lack of success of more […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her and those around her that Harold Wilson and assorted other people in the Labour Party and trade union leadership were ……….well, anything from ideologically unreliable to Soviet agents. In the Callaghan extract the only specific cited from Mrs Thatcher’s conversations […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] bombs remain on the ground. Assassination attempts on the lives of some 40 foreign political leaders. Crude interference in dozens of foreign democratic elections. Gross manipulation of labour movements. Shameless manufacture of ‘news’, the disinformation effect of which is multiplied when CIA assets in other countries pick up the same stories. Providing handbooks, materials […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
This essay has been written using recently declassified records on Project Pandora released on 19 December 1994 to the author after a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed three years ago. The aim of Project Pandora was to study the microwave frequencies targeted on the US Embassy in Moscow by the Soviets during the 1960s … Read more
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
John Perkins San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004, $25.95, h/b ( £14.50 from Amazon.co.uk in January 2005) This is an interesting book, though it is not quite as interesting as it sounded in the interviews with the author which are on the Net. The key material is Perkins’ account of working as an economist for an […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] just isn’t sourced to anything of substance and I think the quote is a fabrication. Bilderberging Who got invited to the May 2003 Bilderberg meeting? From New Labour came Philip Gould and Ed Balls. Balls I can understand: he’s the organ-grinder to Brown’s monkey. But why Gould? What’s he going to tell them? How […]