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Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] invasion within the US intelligence and foreign services. This DVD puts that opposition’s case. Cutting together interviews with a large cast of former CIA, State Department and Pentagon officials, some very senior, and footage of public statements of Bush, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, the film shows that the Bush administration’s ‘intelligence’ on Iraq […]

Money laundering in British football

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Bakiyev owed the state over $80,000,000 in unpaid taxes on fuel supplied to US military aircraft at the Manas air base when it was leased to the Pentagon for operations in Afghanistan. The Prosecutor-General said that Maksim Bakiyev diverted $35,000,000 of a $300,000,000 Russian loan for the construction of the Kambarata-1 hydro-electric project into […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the Dog, a ‘threat’ from Albania is created. In the satire-proof America of 2013 the threat is North Korea. The Washington Post reported on 15 March: ‘The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country’s defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast […]

View from the bridge

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[…] and its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. Politicians and economics Few politicians bother to learn elementary economics and the monetarist idea of the mid 1970s – control the […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little unit within the Pentagon, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. OSP’s role was to find or manufacture intelligence which would provide the pretext for invasion. […]

View from the bridge

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[…] its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . in vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . in vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 […]

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