Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] into the US. For a minute fraction of their monthly earnings, cocaine dealers got a ‘get out of jail’ card from Uncle Sam. If the ‘war on drugs’ is one of America’s leading domestic problems, the CIA has played a significant role in creating it. Pitzer was present at the autopsy of President Kennedy. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar’s airplanes and obtained film of Escobar […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the clubs!’ – or generally thrashing the culture – ‘Sharp street kids love Acid music. . . . but they’re saying a resounding NO to the daft drugs that plague the scene.’ Bushell and Sky then proceeded to show exactly how out of touch they were with the phenomenon by providing a guide to […]

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] by international law and can kill whomever it likes is provided by the blowing-up of boats in the Caribbean on the claimed suspicion that they were smuggling drugs; not stopping and searching them and arresting the crew if drugs were found, but blowing them up regardless. On 2 September 2025, Trump boasted to a […]

Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity by Thomas Gift

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] what can be usefully characterised as a gangster approach to international relations. Initially the best demonstration of this was the sinking of boats supposedly suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean that began in early September 2025. Instead of these boats being intercepted, searched for drugs and the crew arrested, they were attacked, sunk […]

lob81-british-gladio2

Lobster Issue

[…] the police called it an act of ‘good faith’. The next day he was taken to Leeds. Under further interrogation, under stress, possibly under the influence of drugs, with threats by the police to charge his wife and frame his oldest son, he signed blank sheets of paper, on which his ‘confessions’ were later […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the police called it an act of ‘good faith’. The next day he was taken to Leeds. Under further interrogation, under stress, possibly under the influence of drugs, with threats by the police to charge his wife and frame his oldest son, he signed blank sheets of paper, on which his ‘confessions’ were later […]

On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] For the Right, the psychedelic counter-culture undermined ‘traditional values’ such as patriarchy, nationalism and subservience to authority; for elements of the Left, the 1960s hedonism of ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll’ served as a distraction from political struggle and party discipline. To flesh out the theory, extra villains have been thrown in: Satanists, […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] into the US. For a minute fraction of their monthly earnings, cocaine dealers got a ‘get out of jail’ card from Uncle Sam. If the ‘war on drugs’ is one of America’s leading domestic problems, the CIA has played a significant role in creating it. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine […]

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