Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] one of the pretexts for the US war with Spain in 1898 was revulsion at the brutal counterinsurgency methods used by the Spanish General Valeriano Weyler in Cuba. The methods which the Americans went on to use to suppress insurrection in the Philippines were so brutal that they ‘made Weyler seem like a pacifist’. […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] to fruition, probably in an even more nefarious and violent form than what was seen in the former Soviet Union or what we are seeing today in Cuba, in North Korea, or in Communist China’. (p 226) Indeed, ‘the thought police that Orwell warned us about are already here’. (p. 238) One essential prerequisite […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] intentions in 1947-1948 and the instigation (and continuation) of the Cold War; the decision to undermine the 1954 Geneva Peace Agreement on Vietnam; the absurd blockade of Cuba; and the unprecedented support for and identification with Israel. Why does the US behave like this? Is there a common thread here? Is its detached geographical […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Spain 19%, Australia 29%, Portugal 16%, Germany 18%, Japan 21% and Russia 22%. A study of major and/or western nations shows that only Montenegro, Pakistan, Eire, Swaziland, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Angola, Malawi, Libya and Iraq invest less in their own economies than the UK. The announcements now being made about a UK economic recovery (the […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] with the issue see or . 77 80 See . 79 <https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-group-names-uks-corbyn-top-anti-semite-of-2019/ 78 After JFK was assassinated a disinformation campaign began to tie Lee Harvey Oswald to Cuba and the KGB. His history as a defector to the USSR and his role as the one-man branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] just before the Cuban missile crisis how few intercontinental missiles the Soviets actually had. Thus the Americans knew the Soviets would back down when the blockade of Cuba was mounted.) Where the Angleton-Golitsyn nonsense did matter was in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts […]