Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] states of 500 years ago? But in the USA, the subject of 95% of this book, there is no war. There is conflict and oppression and mass surveillance and Red Squads in-all-but-name in all the cities, with computers up the wazoo and big budgets. But the US cities are not yet in a state […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] world’s population seized upon by the intelligence-IT-media bloc that enabled it to implement an authoritarian state equipped with the full array of new digital capabilities for permanent surveillance. (p. 112) Professor van der Pijl does not believe there was any need for the great Covid shutdown. This is the first pandemic in history that […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] prison to start rebuilding his life by setting up a small removals business. This became increasingly difficult due to what he alleged was ‘highly intrusive and unlawful surveillance’ including interference with his phones, mail and emails. This had the effect of blocking him from going about his everyday affairs whilst preventing potential customers making […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] moment. He has also been a witness at the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), as he and his fellow anti-apartheid campaigners in the Young Liberals9 were placed under surveillance by the Special Demonstration Squad of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch in the early 1970s. Professor Rosenhead has had a 34 page statement10 entered as evidence […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] guess would be that the Kennedys paid her to disappear.6 Well ye ken noo Slight stirrings in Parliament about the Snowdon revelations of the NSA/ GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] researching and writing her book was, she tells us, ‘Fear’. She notes that she had been warned that the Rwandan regime kept its enemies and critics under surveillance. Nevertheless she surprised when it was an email from Rwanda’s high commissioner in London in 2015 that opened up her computer to ‘a steady stream of […]