Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Some details of Hurd’s ‘Arabist’ inclinations in dealings with the Helen Smith enquiry/cover-up are included in a profile of Hurd in Private Eye (21 September 1984). Such liberal internationalists trace their historical roots back to the formation of the Round Table network at the beginning of the century, and if Carroll Quigley’s analysis is […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] authored by the pseudonymous ‘James Hepburn’ and reputed to be the product of French intelligence. The Nation has a long history of slagging off conspiracy theorists: its liberal slant is that political assassinations only occur abroad, never at home – unless, as with Letelier, they are of foreigners, by foreigners. So I got the […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Mr Tony was a spook? Issue 7 of Larry O’Hara’s Note from the Borderland () includes a section from the Anne Machon and David Shayler book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers (reviewed in Lobster 49), which was apparently dropped by the publisher. The key section is this, from an unnamed MI5 officer: ‘Blair was recruited early […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the Soviets […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] barely a murmur. There were some protests about the QinetiQ scandal. Mark Serwotka of the PCS union described the affair as ‘obscene’. It was condemned by various Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs, and even by the odd Labour MP. The government, however, defended it as a ‘good deal’ for the taxpayer. Indeed, Lord Drayson, […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Republic of China; and Lt. Col. Philip Corso, a 20-year veteran of Army intelligence (25) who went to work for Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) and once sued liberal columnist Drew Pearson for defamation.(26) Finally, the Honorary Grand Admiral of the SOJ is Admiral Sir Barry Domville, a former British intelligence chief who was interned […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the succession as a hard liner, boosted by that year’s Orange victory at Drumcree, which he and Paisley had celebrated hand in hand. He defeated the ‘ liberal’ candidate, Ken Maginnis, but it seems clear that he had already decided peace on Unionist terms was possible. The problem was not to be the republicans […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] the book is not terribly interesting. Part of it is Mayhew’s memories of his struggle with the CP front groups – the friendship societies – in the 1950s, and the rest is fragmented memories of his increasing dissatisfaction with the Labour Party and his eventual defection to the Liberal Party and thence into the SDP.
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] question mark is there in the original, but it actually is not a question.) Larry is – this is a new concept to me – an ‘ultra- liberal’. (Reminds me a bit of that Russ Meyer movie, Beneath the Valley of the The Ultraliberals was it?) I guess I am one, too, for it […]
