Anti-totalitarianism: The left-wing case for a neo-conservative foreign policy

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] preposterous. The rationale for Nato’s deployment was the opposite.’ At best, Kamm hasn’t done his homework. There was a good deal of nuclear war-fighting talk among the Pentagon and its satellite think-tanks and university departments. It was all the rage among the strategic theorists in the late 1970s. The issue was the credibility of […]

The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] and Command School in Bandung (SESKOAD) into a training-ground for the takeover of political power. SESKOAD in this period became a focal point of attention from the Pentagon, the CIA RAND, and (indirectly) the Ford Foundation. (46) Under the guidance of Nasution and Suwarto, SESKOAD developed a new strategic doctrine, that of Territorial Warfare […]

Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] in, this looks very impressive and is thoroughly documented. September 1988 includes (using IFA’s headlines) Jerusalem Christian ’embassy’ aids Contras Israeli Help on New South African Aircraft Pentagon Sleaze Pipeline Sleaze etc etc. It’s your basic parapolitics methodology (read and collate a hell of a lot) applied to Israel’s foreign policy. It is one […]

The dark side of Washington: Seymour Hersh and the Kennedy legacy

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] 1962 missile crisis and closedown of ‘Operation Mongoose’. But evidence of deep disagreement with Kennedy’s emerging detente with both Cuba and the USSR in the CIA and Pentagon can be found in the bizarre Life Magazine effort of June 7 1963 to prove that the missiles were still there.(4) Hersh’s reading of JFK’s November […]

Secrets from Germany

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] list of US and UK diplomats expelled from various countries for “spying activities” since 1980; and, in a second article, describes the power struggle between the CIA, Pentagon and State Department over the NSC and its new head, Frank Carlucci. Two other articles on American parapolitics are reprinted from American publications – on Vernon […]

Fiji coup update

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] in a second part to the article. Fray said several speakers at a Fijian rally in Sydney had spoken of “strong circumstantial evidence of either CIA or Pentagon involvement”. Evidence for these allegations included a build-up of U.S. naval activity in the South Pacific. On May 16, Papua New Guinea’s “Weekend Nuis” carried two […]

Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] has become synonymous with ‘mass suicide’? An ‘After Action Report’ of the Joint Chiefs of Staff helps to establish the chronology of the myth. According to the Pentagon, which took responsibility for transporting the dead back to the United States, the National Military Command Center (NMCC) was first notified of a disaster in Guyana […]

Operation Black Dog

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] the Search and Recovery teams formed part of a Special Unit with the designation ‘SCRSWA’. This unit has not been identified, despite a telephone call to the Pentagon library. According to sources, there was a British involvement. This has yet to be identified and confirmed, but it is thought possible the bacteriological weapon may […]

Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] the chief Middle East arms sales adviser to Secretary of Defense Weinberger, from which post he was positioned to authorise the Israeli arms shipments out of the Pentagon. Secord had also headed planning for the sabotaged (see below) Desert One/Eagleclaw hostage rescue attempt in April 1980 (Secord’s testimony in the Irangate hearings; San Jose […]

The CIA and the Culture of Failure

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] example, or Colombia today; or Central America in the 1980s.) This happens because the American system as constructed since 1945 needs enemies. It needs ‘threats’. If the Pentagon and the corporations and politicians feeding off it are to continue to receive 50% of federal tax dollars there needs to be a plausible threat or […]

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