Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] which they are inserted75 but will increase anti-American feeling and thus – and this is the only point of them – will generate new ‘enemies’ for the Pentagon to fight; with expensive ordnance76 provided by the arms manufacturers; a small fraction of whose profits will be used to bribe Congress. This is the really […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: The Doomsday Machine Daniel Ellsberg London: Bloomsbury, 2017, £20.00 Alex Cox Until recently I only knew Daniel Ellsberg as the whistleblower who made the Pentagon Papers public, and for his peace campaigning over the years. I had no idea that prior to releasing a trove of documents related to the American War in Vietnam, […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] if it provided military aid to Israel.108 (emphases added) Golan alleges that Kissinger mislead Israeli Ambassador Dinitz with claims that the shipments were being ‘sabotaged by the Pentagon’, with Deputy Secretary of Defense, William Clements (a Texan oil magnate), later singled out as the scapegoat.109 And yet, all the while it was Kissinger who […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] President Nixon’s directive in the summer of 1971 to uncover and silence unauthorized leakers of administration secrets. Topping their list of targets was Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon official who had helped draft the top-secret Pentagon Papers, a highly critical study of the history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg had leaked the 7,000page report […]