My enemy’s enemy…: Museum Street

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand … Read more

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Editorially

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

Editorially Sorry this is late but the schedule we set ourselves of an issue every two months. A number of reasons for this – the summer holidays, a typewriter breakdown – but mainly (a) just a lot of pressure from other areas, and (b) an enormous mountain of copy to be handled. In effect Nos … Read more

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] 2000 PR Week, 26 May 2000 PR Week September 29 2000 Private Eye 6 June 2000 On David Shayler’s account of SIS involvement in a plan to assassinate Gaddafi see Mark Hollingsworth, Defending the Realm (London, Andre Deutsch, 1999, pp.149-51) Where the European Commission slots in – with Neil Kinnock’s son Stephen as the […]

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The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection

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Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead (Sheridan Square Publications, New York, 1986) When the Turkish Grey Wolves hold rallies they howl collectively. So, at times, do journalists of the ‘free press’. In 1979 Edward Herman wrote After the Cataclysm with Noam Chomsky in which they shredded Western … Read more

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More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

Critique, mentioned in these columns before (Lobster 8), is a California-based “Journal of Conspiracies and Metaphysics”. It’s editor, Bob Banner, has had the good taste to reprint pieces from Lobster. Critique’s slogan – now available on T-shirts! – is; Question consensus reality. Well, amen to that. However, the bit of “consensus reality” – and Banner … Read more

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Secrecy and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Robert Parry Arlington (VA): The Media Consortium, 2004; $22.95 (US); p/b Order from <www.secrecyandprivilege.com>   This is the book I have enjoyed most since the last Lobster and it is one of the best books I have read on American politics and parapolitics. Robert Parry really is very good indeed: he has the serious investigative … Read more

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Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

Marc Seifer Birch Lane Press, 1996. £15.95 (plus £2 postage) from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL. In the last 15-20 years the name Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. … Read more

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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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Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, … Read more

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Tim Weiner New York: Doubleday, 2007, h/b, $27.95   This book’s existence is a surprising development. The author is a New York Times journalist and for one of the NYT’s writers to produce a critical study of the CIA is unprecedented to my knowledge, and tells us much about the diminished status of the Agency. … Read more

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