The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] One is certainly that the City of London was one of the beneficiaries of Afghan corruption, with billions of dollars being smuggled out of the country and hidden away in New York, London and the Gulf states. It is unlikely that we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] 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 and Ministry of the Interior officials loading cocaine onto one of Escobar’s planes at Managua’s […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] Lebzelter, ‘Henry Hamilton Beamish and the Britons; Champions of Anti-Semitism’ in Lunn and Thurlow (eds) see note 4 above: first (unnumbered) page of her essay. 84 The hidden anti-semitism of the political Right in this period is visible, for example, in the autobiography of John Baker White (see note 69 above). White (p. 123) […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] his former colleagues follow the same pattern of omerta, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke aggressively so. The Blairs’ financial interests seem to be arranged to defy scrutiny, hidden in part behind the pious façade of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBBF). In its own self-description, ‘TBBF is a “think-do” tank, meaning that all of […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] a 3-man team and probably stolen in a raid on the Irish Reserve Army barracks at Midleton, Co Cork in 1970. This deadly water-cooled weapon was partly hidden under an old sack. Stanley moved the sack, laid out his handkerchief and expertly stripped the weapon into its parts. It looked as though he could […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] intelligence content: ‘MI5 lead hunt for IRA arms dumps’ in 2011 which began ‘Irish terrorists are feared to be planning an attack on mainland Britain using explosives hidden in Wales and the South-west’, which has no stated sources and may have come from MI5.6 With no apparent interest in intelligence stories Fielding has uncritically […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the US was orchestrating his 2002 ouster due to the risk he posed of derailing the Iraq war agenda with successful negotiations, his office was packed with hidden surveillance equipment and that his American head of security vanished immediately after this was discovered. “The fact was that the wall behind my desk, the wall […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Hybrid warfare So-called ‘Havana syndrome’ (discussed below), the Russian assault on over 1000 US overseas diplomatic personnel, using sound or electromagnetic radiation (almost certainly the latter), has established that such devices work […]

The nature of the state and future challenges

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] successor to the post office, i.e. the internet, he creates a space to discuss what we mean by rational management by the state and points to the hidden attractions of Trumpism. He divides the categories in this discussion between Sovereignty (or the claim by rulers for the monopoly on the use of violence); Administration […]

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