Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] get a whiff of this from its subtitle: John F Kennedy’s Assassination is still a magnet for every popeyed wahoo clinging to a theory incriminating Freemasons, UFOs, Nazi satanists, psychic cliques and the abominable snowman.’ This is a wonderful (bad and good ‘wonderful’) exercise in guilt by association. Some of the piece will be […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] 14-18 ROYAL NAVY NAVAL INTELLIGENCE -18 HOLLAND -19 NORWAY. INTERNATIONAL PAINTS AND COMPOSITIONS LTD. -39 ENGLAND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE -41 NORWEIGIAN SECTION MI6: WORKED ON ATTEMPTS TO FRUSTRATE NAZI DEVELOPMENT OF THE BOMB -45 RESPONSIBLE FOR ATOMIC INTELLIGENCE AND AQUISITION OF TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE? -51 ATOMIC ENERGY DIRECTORATE OF THE MINISTRY OF SUPPLY WHITE, SIR (VINCENT) […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] addresses and telephone numbers of far Right organisations, both British and foreign. Furthermore, many of the groups Searchlight effectively advertises free of charge are the most pro- Nazi (in the true sense of the word) and pro-violence. Looking through Searchlight from the start of 1992 to October 1994 the following groups and publications – […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] the pub”. (p. 6) It defies belief to think that anti-fascists would deliberately admit to covertly monitoring fascist meetings from within the same premises: such would alert Nazi “counter-intelligence”. This points, therefore, to the state having at least one, or maybe more, operatives inside the local BNP, and them being very confident indeed. ‘(Emphasis […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] early important books on the Labour Party and on African politics. Ronald had a particular interest in Germany in the two World Wars and the Holocaust and Nazi genocide, having been a field gunner in the Eighth Army throughout World War II. He was probably the first British soldier to see the 335 victims […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
The parapolitical activities of Jean Violet go back to the 1930s, when Violet was supposedly involved with a violent quasi-Masonic movement going under the title of the Comite Secret pour l’Action Revolutionnaire, or CSAR. CSAR was part of a larger far-right phenomenon in pre-WW2 France, the conspiratorial members of which were referred to as Cagoulards, … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA’s use of psychedelics, ex- Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and then, via a chapter on Afghanistan, back to the United States and the cocaine connections […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] as working-class politics in Britain remained strong and secular; socialist organisations led the battle against racism and fascism – as in the example of the mass-based Anti- Nazi League and Asian Youth Movement. Problems began when left sects like the SWP cynically transformed the ANL into a pacifist recruitment conduit and abandoned Asian communities […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
Kenn Thomas Illuminet Press, Lilburn, GA 30048 USA, 1999, $14.95 www.illuminetpress.com The Crisman in the book’s title is a man called Fred Lee Crisman who is one of only two people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] this. I gave up after about 60 pages. It is strewn with errors, misinterpretations and inventions. Here are some examples. p. 20 ‘Prince Bernhard drew on his Nazi history in corporate management to encourage the “super secret policy-making groups” to call themselves the Bilderbergers after Farben Bilder, in memory of the Farben executives’ initiative […]