The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hegemony by the rise of China as an economic and military power. The development has come to be seen in US think tanks as well as the Pentagon as a ‘Thucydides trap’. The author of this expression was the political scientist Graham T. Allison, who quoted a passage from the History of the Peloponnesian […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] daily basis child labor, debt slavery, human rights atrocities (particularly by US client nations), white collar-crime, environmental crises involving nuclear or agricultural waste, military contracting corruption (the Pentagon by now cannot account for over six trillion dollars in spending), corporate tax evasion and dozens of other topics’. (p. 84) He returns to this point […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] which mainstream media outlets in the West did not discuss in much detail. This was the country’s place in US global strategy. As early as 1992 a Pentagon defence planning document explicitly stated that the main objective of US security policy should be ‘to obstruct the emergence of any potential rival – “either on […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in the world. It appears that no-one actually knows, in part because no-one can agree on the definition of ‘a base’. ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at The most important research currently available on NATO and all its doings is that by Rick Rozoff at and many […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] but there is something else here. The US State Department counts for little. It was by-passed in the 1950s by the paramilitary (CIA) and the military ( Pentagon). The US State Department exists as a kind of cover story for America’s military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by the cables which show […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[…] of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and far northwestern China. Later that spring, orders came down to stop […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Goodhart said that, ‘I did once hear that the services regard the Shiv Malik piece on 7/7 as essential reading inside the “security state”’ and added: ‘a Pentagon official once said the same.’ Goodhart went on to say: ‘if Hassan Butt has now been “exposed” as a liar and fantasist we were certainly not […]

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