A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history, Zed Books, 1986, illustrates this was well as any single volume can. There has been a U.S. rewrite/update of […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history, Zed Books, 1986, illustrates this was well as any single volume can. There has been a U.S. rewrite/update of […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history, Zed Books, 1986, illustrates this was well as any single volume can. There has been a U.S. rewrite/update of […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans. In 2002, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] weapon. Because of the invisibility of malware it will be less accountable and, as we’ve seen with NSO, it will be given special treatment politically. Unlike a missile, this is an area of production which is continually evolving, whose current status for obvious reasons must always be kept under wraps. It forms part of […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans. In 2002, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false […]

ATTACK WARNING RED! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 1 aircraft (Airborne Warning and Control System), RAF Kinloss closed.1 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, other military systems, such as the Bloodhound surface to air missile, disappeared along with their bases. The military footprint in the UK shrank in what perhaps some would call the ‘peace dividend’ and others would describe as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] by rockets fired – NATO alleges – from inside Russia into Eastern Ukraine.2 3 Yet neither NATO nor US intelligence has released any images of the anti-aircraft missile system – what, a hundred? two 22 23 hundred? times as big as one of those scorch marks – which it is claimed was used to […]

From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996 Nigel Norman Kim Besly was a peace campaigner and a regular visitor to the women’s camp at Greenham Common in the 1980’s.1 She did not match the stereotype of the ‘Greenham woman’. She was in her late fifties when she went to Greenham and had little involvement in politics […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] left by rockets fired – NATO alleges – from inside Russia into Eastern Ukraine.24 Yet neither NATO nor US intelligence has released any images of the anti-aircraft missile system – what, a hundred? two hundred? times as big as one of those scorch marks – which it is claimed was used to shoot down […]

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