Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50) Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter and […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] said the internet saved his life. Protest groups and activists The report discusses the use of the internet by international protest groups and activists, e.g. by neo- nazi groups in Germany and the Zapatistas in Mexico. It claims that the largest and most active political groups using it appear to be the San Fransisco-based […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In … Read more
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] all, is the difference between the NF and the SWP? I might mischievously suggest that whilst some (not all) in the NF harked back nostalgically to the Nazi period in which millions were killed by a brutal dictatorship, most people in the SWP look back fondly to a golden age when even more millions […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Andre Deutsche, 1976) Foot, P : Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan 1989) Hill, J and Bell, A : The Other Face of Terror: Inside Europe’s Neo- Nazi Network. (London: Granada, 1988) Holroyd, F and Burbridge, N: War Without Honour (Hull: Medium, 1989) McCann, E : War and an Irish Town (London: Pluto Press, […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what … Read more
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] all the signs were pointing in another direction. It was a sentiment which was strengthened by war against the common enemy of the USA and the USSR, Nazi Germany. Here was a country which many believed to be characterised by a malignant and evil form of capitalism in which cartels and big business had […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] by Licio Gelli, a wealthy businessman who had fought with the Falange in Spain and then for the fascist Republic of Salo in the last days of Nazi rule in Italy. Gelli’s purposes were revealed by his declaration in 1976 that “masonry hates communism because it is contrary to the idea of the dignity […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] into a foam-flecked apoplexy, they have charged like a lynch-mob after a silly old Tankie, whose ‘betrayal’ turns out to have been negligible, ludicrously equating her with Nazi war criminals and demanding, effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more