Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] the Bush cabinets, the most brutal of which is the account of Colin Powell, whose career as ‘house nigger’ (my term, not the Parrys’), first for the Pentagon and then for the Bush regime, climaxed when he delivered the regime’s lies about Iraq’s weapons before the UN. Thirty years a soldier/bureaucrat, Powell is no […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] In his final paragraphs Van Wynsberghe adds Lobster and Alex Cox to his line-up of dupes and villains. Lobster ‘began running reports on psychic cliques in the Pentagon’. I did? Not quite. And poor old Cox ‘maintained that there was a fascist conspiracy in the U.S. security establishment to encourage belief in UFO’s’. He […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] and are now as high as anywhere outside of Manhattan? Well, the Mob happened, in the persons of Bugsy Siegal and Meyer Lansky – as did the Pentagon, courtesy of the US atomic testing programme. Both these influxes of outside talent, people with ‘juice’ to use the Vegas parlance, were presaged by three events […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] post 9/11 world, however, nobody cares and the book is just one more attack on the CIA, which has all but been supplanted in Washington by the Pentagon, which is not accountable to Congress for covert operations, and the rise of the private sector intelligence firms. Notes Author of Portrait of a Cold Warrior […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[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 […]