The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] and Carter got screwed electorally by an alliance of spooks, the military and their intellectual flunkies who recreated the ‘Soviet threat’ (Team B, the ‘Soviet brigade’ on Cuba, etc.). The author’s analysis distinguishes him from others who see a neo-con cabal currently running things. He shows them merely fronting and generating rationales for the […]

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Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] Astor. In one of those intriguing coincidences, Astor played a role in Ivanov’s attempts to intervene in the Cuban Missile Crisis. On the Thursday evening of the Cuba week, Astor suggested Ivanov should meet ‘Boofy’ Gore, the Earl of Arran. At the time it seemed to be an eccentric choice for behind-the-scenes diplomacy. But […]

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Someone would have talked

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal with Castro. This is terribly plausible, a good hypothesis, and Hancock handles the immensely detailed material very well; […]

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Recent JFK (and related) literature

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] A Party at Kitty and Stud’s. Poundstone even tells you where you can get the video.) SCOTT, Peter Dale. Deep Politics II: Essays on Oswald, Mexico and Cuba: The New Revelations in US Government Files, 1994-95. Skokie (Illinois): Green Archive Publications, 1995. + 162 pps. Notes, index. Thirteen new essays by one of the […]

House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] Japan and works his way right through all the major events in the history of Pentagon: interservice rivalries; manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of […]

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9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] mistakes made by the United States and CIA in the past. The usual CIA mode of undermining foreign governments it does not like — from Russia to Cuba to Iran — has been to organize and train their opponents in criminal activities, including sabotage and smuggling. But time and again this strategy backfires. The […]

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] ‘a rare flash of skepticism,’ decided that ‘his denial cannot be credited.’ Oswald had earlier used the alias ‘Osborne’ in New Orleans when ordering Fair Play for Cuba literature. And there are other intriguing connections and coincidences.Eddowes thought that Osborne was either a freelance or Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. […]

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The big one? 9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] there are precedents for the American state faking a causa belli: the sinking of the USS Maine to provide the pretext for the war with Spain over Cuba; the Gulf of Tonkin; and we could add a vast array of examples of smaller psy-ops. But I cannot imagine any such group deciding that this […]

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Beyond The Da Vinci Code

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] the promotion of favoured opposition groups; and then ii) through pre-planned direct military intervention: in most cases, the threat will be enough; some naughty countries (such as Cuba and North Korea) who might put up a bit of a fight will now just be by-passed, contained or left at the subversion stage until nature […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] C. Wright Mills, Allen Ginsberg, and – most guaranteed to upset the American establishment – Alger Hiss. Tynan was also a signatory to the ‘Fair Play For Cuba’ advertisement placed in the New York Times in April 1960. An appearance before the SISS therefore came as no surprise. In the event, chief counsel J. […]

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