Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] can never be verified. His (or her) most important sources are unidentified, unworthy of belief or simply unavailable to the public. (Some examples: ‘According to a high-ranking Pentagon official’, ‘according to Bruce Roberts, author of the Gemstone File’, ‘according to a secret CIA report’, etc.) Citations of this sort are the investigative equivalent of […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] the annual ‘fellows’ gathering. The US end of this informal Atlanticist freemasonry operation for many years had Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the Iraq war at the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, complementing Naughtie’s UK recruitment efforts. That was when Wolfowitz ran the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in DC, the US […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] Bush overturned America’s 25-year ban on state assassinations, giving the CIA permission to eliminate individuals designated by the President. He comes across the Grey Ghosts in the Pentagon (‘a private army of professional assassins’(28)) and briefly examines the slashed wrist death of journalist Danny Casolaro. However after due consideration – and talking to individuals […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]