Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] drew up plans to mount a bloody “terror campaign” in the United States…. and planned to blame it on Fidel Castro to justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba……’. This sounds strangely similar to what nearly happened in the first hours after the death of JFK but which was forestalled by the swift creation of […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] today there is, and has been since the 1850s, an ‘Irish lobby’, after World War Two a ‘China lobby’, and, of course, there is also the ‘ Cuba lobby’.(7) An early example of US foreign policy being largely determined by expatriate and politically active migrants came in 1917-1918 when substantial communities of Slovaks and […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] bases in West Germany (part 3 of the list raises the total named to 250), this issue names 30 CIA agents stationed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Syria and Cuba, investigates the history of German involvement in Afghanistan and BND strategy for the area, and reports on the surveillance of the Berlin Alternative List. Two articles […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] however, the protagonists of ‘Operation Dropshot’ were restrained by more rational voices in their aim to ‘reduce the Soviet Union to a smouldering, irradiated ruin.’ The 1962 Cuba missile crisis – during which US president Kennedy’s successful efforts to rein in the pre-emptive arguments of airforce chief (and ‘Dropshot’ author) Curtis LeMay were mirrored […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] 20th anniversary edition, with essays by Edward S. Herman, Philip Agee looking back on the 20 years, Michael Parenti and Ramsey Clark; a collection of essays on Cuba; and a couple on the demonization of Serbia, one of them by Diana Johnstone, formerly of In These Times. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW #732, Washington, DC […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] are essential for national survival. As supplies of oil become increasingly difficult to access, Britain may find it more useful to look to the recent experience of Cuba than to put its faith in the free-market generosity of other countries. The political results of these exigencies remain to be seen – in practice.(32) Philip […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] the primary originator of the basic US foreign policy move of accusing your enemies of running drugs into the otherwise innocent bodies of the US citizenry (China, Cuba, Nicaragua), while allowing your political allies (KMT, anti-Castro Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This essay focuses on Anslinger as manipulator of Congress, media and the […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what little hasn’t been weeded – we will have to wait for the equivalent account of the next […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] lack of it) on the EU, the MIA proposals, Brian Burkitt of Bradford University on the economics of EMU; as well as articles attacking the IMF, defending Cuba, and describing the ‘the rise of criminality to the top of the Czech Republic’s “Velvet Revolution” elite’. Its specific political orientation – if it has one […]