Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] February that more than 11,000 injured had been through Andrews air force base in the previous nine months and the real figure was probably higher than that. Mike Small is one of an editorial group running Indymedia Scotland and is writing a book on ‘Blairusconi: the New Labour Project and the Italian Right’.
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
On Friday 7 August I was told by a journalist at another paper that the Mail on Sunday had a story that Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson had worked for the spooks – though which branch was not clear. ‘That doesn’t surprise me,’ I said, and described Mandelson’s 1978 Foreign Office (or SIS?)-funded trip to Cuba. […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] compile a detailed account of the Commonwealth Bilderberg’s origins in which he also suggests that the original Bilderberg had assumed a significant degree of importance to senior Labour Party figures. Philip Murphy, ‘By invitation only: Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, and the attempt to create a Commonwealth “Bilderberg Group”, 1964-66’. The Journal of Imperial and […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] range as a reference group, thought the KGB story was a smear. Agee told us the lie we wanted to hear. (And one or two of the Labour MPs involved may have been within the Soviet orbit at the time.) Further, in the Soviet-American competition of the Cold War, to say something bad about […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] damning intelligence against Iraq being selectively chosen, while intelligence assessments, which might have worked against the build-up to war, were sidelined. Intelligence work had become politicised under Labour, and spies were taking orders from politicians. They provided worst-case scenarios which were use by politicians to make factual claims.'(3) There were no names and no […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] conviction, guilty or otherwise; net snooping at work; Echelon and its cousins; the origins of the surveillance society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; the growth of federal law enforcement agencies and their intelligence gathering; the growth of private, political intelligence gathering from […]