Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Web update Jane Affleck Thanks to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Comments and details of interesting websites are welcome: my email address is 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Freedom Of Information Campaign for Freedom of Information http://www.cfoi.org.uk ‘The Campaign for Freedom of Information campaigns against unnecessary secrecy and for greater public access to official and other … Read more
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] following. (And this is a very rough paraphrase indeed.) Fluoride was used in very large quantities by the WW2 nuclear programmes. Its toxic effects were known but suppressed — ‘national security’. The early research showing that it was ‘safe’ was done by scientists working on nukes in the late 40s and early 1950s whose […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
See note(1) Like some Russian high official come to treat with Chechen rebels, CIA Director John Deutch arrived in force — by heavily-armed motorcade, and with helicopter cover. SWAT teams swarmed over the building that was Deutch’s destination. But on November 15, 1996, Deutch’s destination was in fact only the auditorium of Locke High School … Read more
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
Introduction Despite their reputation for ’empiricism’, British academics have tended to treat political power by means of abstract concepts rather than empirical information about the actions of determinate individuals and groups (e.g. Giddens, 1984, 1985; Scott, 1986). After a brief efflorescence of empirical studies of the so-called ‘Establishment’ in the early 1960s, sociologists in Britain … Read more
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 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones London: Yale University Press, 2002, £22.50 Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World Percy Craddock London: John Murray, 2002, £25 Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle … Read more
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] and covert political groups, which are a common feature of modern politics. For this and other reasons, serious research into genuine conspiratorial networks has at worst been suppressed, as a rule been discouraged, and at best been looked upon with condescension by the academic community.(3) An entire dimension of political history and contemporary politics […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] black Africans — Smith now wonders if he was poisoned by the British state. Despite his complaints the Brits went ahead anyway and duly rigged the elections, suppressed a census of the population of the northern region which would have revealed what a minority the northerners were, and handed power over to their stooges […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] trial, Kennedy’s barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, said that there had been a police cover up: ‘every category of police document in the case had, since 1990, been suppressed, gone missing, or been forged’ and police officers at Hammersmith had ‘closed ranks, closed doors, closed files’. (2) There was immediate concern about the safety of […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
Feedback Mark Taha (see Lobster 21, p. 25) wrote. ‘As someone who never joined any of the groups Larry O’Hara deals with [Lobster 23] but has attended their meetings, reads their publications, once nearly joined, and describes himself as a Libertarian Conservative Nationalist, (sic!) I read his article with interested. I noticed a few errors. … Read more
