Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Contributions comments are always welcome. E-mail me on 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Electronic Privacy and Encryption Privacy and Human Rights http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/ New GILC/EPIC/PI report details the state of privacy in 50 countries. Includes Threats to Privacy; The Right to Privacy; Technologies of Privacy Invasion. The report was written by Privacy […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] to argue that the ‘war’ had little to do with protecting Saudi Arabia or removing Saddam Hussein but was instead a manifestation of what he calls ‘ new militarism’. Whereas previous modern conflicts had involved most of the populace in what was by convention referred to as the war effort, the trend over the […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] in the American world of dreams, dream interpretation, dream therapy, shamen etc. Check out or the many clips of Moss qua dream expert on and wonder a new at the strangeness of the world. PPPiffle In a piece in The Evening Standard of 13 March Chris Blackhurst reminded Londoners that the Metronet PPP deal, […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] called White ‘a sentimental and highly indiscreet fellow traveller’), is that White kept up his links not because he was a Communist but because he was a New Dealer who believed in (i) union of anti-fascist forces and (ii) US-USSR friendship as the key to postwar world peace and prosperity – his real goals. […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] to kill Hitler), Martin Borman convened and chaired a conference at Strassburg to supervise the mass shifting of capital overseas: ‘……so that after the defeat a strong new Reich can be built.’ The routes selected for this ran via Switzerland. (3) Estimates for the actual amounts shifted by Borman et al vary but a […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] 1992 ‘was hampered by missing prosecution papers, police notebooks, and officers declining to be interviewed…’.(1) In April 1992 a World in Action programme on the case produced new documentary evidence and witnesses which appeared to contradict the police version of events on the night. This new evidence was heard at an appeal, in February […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] a variety of systems. In part this is a result of the traditional autonomy of the individual police force; in part the consequence of learning to apply new technology. The police (and the software companies) have spent the last few years learning how to do it. (2) But now the Home Office (which pays […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] Telecom can monitor thousands of calls per day overseas calls are sent to GCHQ which runs them through a ‘voice print’ library to identify the speaker. ( New Scientist 28 February 1985) Interesting background support to this in Andreas Whittam Smith in Telegraph (16 February 1985) who quotes on history of British tapping. Claims […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
As the election for the new Pope began a fascinating US radio interview with a former senior CIA official was broadcast in which the name Michael Ledeen (See Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to […]
