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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] examples on the Net, 31 ‘Case Study 2’ (see note 16) periods of drought or storm’,3 2 about which the Vietnamese knew all too well. After the Pentagon Papers leak, Seymour Hersh revealed in the New York Times that America had been manipulating the weather in Vietnam in order to cause floods. The project […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] also claimed the land and opposed the move. DEMOGRAPHICS OF HISTORIC PALESTINE PRIOR TO 1948 https://www.cjpme.org/fs_007 https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/leaked-chinese-documentreveals-a-sinister-plan-to-unleash-coronaviruses/news-story/ 53674e8108ad5a655e07e990daa85465 https://www.rt.com/russia/523956-regime-change-belarus-prank/ NED blown by prank call. Big stuff. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9536053/Pentagon-whistleblowerwarns-UFO-intelligence-failure-level-9-11.html Pentagon whistleblower warns that report on military sightings of UFOs could reveal US has been ‘leapfrogged technologically by a foreign adversary’ in intelligence failure ‘on par with […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] to those of the Middle East, further emphasizing the continent’s strategic importance.’1 Unlike its mega-embassies and military bases in Iraq, Kosovo, and other strategically important locations, the Pentagon has smaller, mobile bases across Africa. The Congressional report tells us that these ‘facilities as “lily pads”, or Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs), and access to locations […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue

[…] – the ‘ideological paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, 141 Summer 2010 disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] – the ‘ideological paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] with Iran, Cameron appointed right-winger Liam Fox as Minister of Defence precisely to pursue exactly the same kind of privatisation agenda pursued by Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon from 2000. (Klein, 2007, pp. 293-305) While Rumsfeld was saved from the Joint Chiefs of Staff by 9/11, it was this privatising zeal that led Liam […]

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