A War of Words: a Cold War Witness

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] (it never seemed likely that a lazy dilettante like Wyatt would do all that research himself); and possibly also for the Aidan Crawley series on the ‘The Hidden Face of British Communism’ in the Sunday Times in 1962, published later as a pamphlet. It also suggests that my assumption that Common Cause and IRIS […]

Telecommunications at the End of the World

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] potential target areas’ and ‘can be made independent of mains power supply.'(15) Public Interest and Public Emergencies The existence of emergency telephone systems has apparently been kept hidden to allow war planners their customary secrecy. This attitude has resulted in the provision of powerful networks that could be, but are not, applicable to peacetime […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Nixon’s orders to engage in burglaries, forgery and other crimes to discredit his enemies and protect his most sensitive secrets. Perhaps the most explosive of his own hidden misdeeds was his treasonous intervention with South Vietnam during the 1968 campaign to prevent a bombing halt that might have swung the election to Vice President […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] less visible connections to Prohibition-era liquor and gambling fortunes, which they helped launder into legitimate businesses over the course of the following decades. These businessmen used well- hidden criminal funds as seed capital to build new fortunes in fast-growing industries such as leisure, real estate, 5 media, and entertainment. Some were part of a […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Vol. 66, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 40 Quoted in David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (London: Simon and Schuster, 2007) p. 275. 41 42 Recorded in 1947. 16 but I’ve never been able to run down […]

[PDF file]: […] No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 8 Quoted at and in David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (London: Simon and Schuster, 2007) p. 275. 9 10 Recorded in 1947. 5 That is how I’ve always used it or […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

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