Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] then became almost the “common sense” of the initial phase of the globalisation that followed the collapse of communism in the 1980s.’ Notes 2 Here is Gordon Brown on 26 February 1992: ‘Let no one, absolutely no one on the Conservative benches, try to peddle the misleading statement that the Labour party is not […]

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The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported ‘he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et […]

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Groupings on the British Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] Richard V Allen Rt Hon Sir Peter Blaker KCMG MP Baroness Cox Dr Iain Elliot Professor Antonio Martino Advisory Council Dr Robert Conquest Rt Hon Lord George- Brown Brian Key Leopold Labedz Melvin J Lasky Rt Hon Reginald Prentice JP MP Professor Pedro Schwartz Frank Shakespeare Dr Philip Towle Dr G R Urban Director […]

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An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Prince of Darkness. American imperialism is the agency of God’s salvation. George W. Bush is the Angel of the Lord. And so on. It sounds crazy. Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) could never have got away with it. Northcott nonetheless believes that it is a ‘powerful cultural and religious force in modern America’. […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] between Milgram and the CIA: tortured reasoning in a question of torture’, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(2), Spring 2007, pp. 199-203; Richard E. Brown, ‘Alfred McCoy, Hebb, the CIA and torture’, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(2), Spring 2007, pp. 205-213. See also Blass’s website: Jeffrey M. […]

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The Party of Business and the Business of Parties

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] that this has more to do with reducing current public debt, perhaps with an eye on Euro membership, than it has with a few sleazy donations. Gordon Brown would argue that it means getting an immediate surge in public investment without a return to ‘boom and bust’. But specific one-off cases, like the Ecclestone […]

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Updates

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] voted at each, as the computer records showed. Sir Ken was praised by Tony Blair in a video distributed to the union, and was endorsed by Gordon Brown over lunch at an Amicus AEEU conference in Blackpool. Under Sir Ken, lest we forget, Amicus had donated £2m to Labour’s 2001 election fund. (3) Meanwhile, […]

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The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

Following the initial investigation by the West Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) … Read more

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The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] history. Can we also assume that whereas he once regarded its atrocities as ‘bad’, he now regards them as ‘good’? He, along with the likes of Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn and others, certainly cannot plead ignorance. Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York 2002) p. 189. […]

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George Korkala’s address book

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest […]

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