United States foreign policy

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Harold Pinter defined American foreign policy thus: ‘Kiss my arse or I’ll kick your head in.’ William Blum counts the heads that have been kicked. United States foreign policy   In 1975, there was a committee of the US congress called the Pike Committee, named after its chairman Otis Pike. This committee investigated the covert … Read more

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After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] away from, choosing not to know? What will our grandchildren accuse us of? This range of editorial concerns led us to make After Dark programmes on sex, drugs, rock-and-roll and everything from the fashion industry to the Grand National, child abuse, psychics and animal rights (and, yes, one on male violence with Oliver Reed). […]

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The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] 1992 NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) for example, is in fact profoundly ‘protectionist’ in relation to such matters as intellectual property rights (software, patents for seeds, drugs etc.) with elaborate ‘rules of origin’ designed to keep out foreign competitors etc. See Dawkins 1993. If the Marshall Plan had military objectives (containment of Soviet […]

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9/11: The new evidence

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

9/11: The new evidence Ian Henshall London: Robinson, 2007, p/b, £9.99   This is a sequel to, an updating of, Henshall’s book (co-written with Rowland Morgan) 9:11 Revealed, reviewed in Lobster 50 (p. 29). Some new bits and pieces are chewed over, some new evidence is presented, some familiar material is reworked. It is done … Read more

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The Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

See note (1) James ‘Bo’ Gritz, linked to the US Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), was detained with Lance Corp. Edward Trimmer whilst trying to enter Thailand. (Guardian 23rd September 1983) They were apparently on another mission looking for American POWs. In December, for the first time since 1975, American troops were in Laos investigating … Read more

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Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate Attempts by intelligence and law enforcement to control new technologies Intelligence/law enforcement concerns Intelligence and law enforcement agencies world-wide have in recent years become concerned that more widespread use of advanced technologies, such as encryption, digital technologies and the Internet, will compromise their ability to fight crime and terrorism. … Read more

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American Friends: the Anti-CND Groups

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] have anything on Natalia Brooke, Centre Secretary, whose grandfather was Count Beckendorff, the last White Russian Ambassador to London; and on Martin Bendelow, still in prison on drugs charges? Heseltine chaired the Defence Secretariat 19. It included Home Office and Foreign Office Ministers, senior officials and Mr Bernard Ingham, Thatcher’s press secretary. A strange […]

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Conservative Radicalism: a Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] (pp. 26/7, 92-4). There was resistance from other factions and from Conservative central office which really didn’t want to have its youth wing advocating the legalisation of drugs, for example, and risking the creation of a ‘loony right’ to balance the ‘loony left’ of the Labour Party which the central office and its supportive […]

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The Last Supper: The Mafia, the Masons

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] an account of some of the effects of America’s anti-Soviet obsession on Italian politics and what stemmed from it: corruption of all institutions, including the Catholic Church; drugs, violence, terrorism and assassination; conspiracy, literally, as normal politics; disinformation by the barrow-load. This book is full of incredible stories, leads, hints and allegations across 30 […]

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Vatican Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] Reynolds. Reynolds is an arms dealer, and disappeared in 1980. He is also linked to Syrian arms dealer Henri Arsan, who is tied to the Bulgarian arms/ drugs ring which leads to the assassination attempt on the Pope. See Helbert Hellerstein in ST 5th December 1982. 20. The Bulgarian Connection and the Media Michael […]

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