Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] Website is Nick McDermott, ‘Big Brother tapping our phones and e-mails 1,000 times a day’, The Daily Mail, 29 January 2008. Scott’s presentation at one of last year’s COPA (Coalition on Political Assassinations) conferences, ‘JFK & 9/11: insights gained from studying both’, can be seen at Gareth Porter ‘How the Pentagon planted a false story’
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] its discontents Organised Crime Threatens the New World Order The Decline of American Journalism The 1960s and COINTELPRO: In Defense of Paranoia Infowar and Disinformation: From the Pentagon to the Net Mind Control and the Secret State Class Warfare: Wall Street vs Main Street. Highly recommended. Brandt is about as interesting an essayist as […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] Korea was more experimental than strategic, but it was definitely offensive rather than defensive, and was part of an ongoing development program within the bowels of the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence establishments. Re: the comments in Lobster 45 p. 24, subhead ‘Monkey business?’, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie Foundations poured millions into women’s studies, […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] to be tracked against their private assessments and the actual ‘ground truth’ as now known. Also made available, courtesy of ABC News, is a copy of a Pentagon report which – ‘based on the analysis of some 600,000 official Iraqi documents seized by US forces after the invasion and thousands of hours of interrogations […]
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 […]