Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] suggested this interpretation to him. If there’s any truth to it, however, it becomes worrying in a political sense. With the Guardian moving ever closer to the New Labour establishment, what else wouldn’t they investigate if they came across it? Is the smell of incense currently wafting from the Guardian offices covering a more […]

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JFK: The two Oswalds. One Hell of a Gamble

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] In the early 1950s an intelligence operation was underway that involved two teenage boys: Lee Oswald from Fort Worth and a Russian-speaking boy named ‘Harvey Oswald’ from New York. Beginning in 1952 these boys lived parallel but separate lives, often in the same city. Sounds incredible, eh? Well it is. But Armstrong scrupulously documents […]

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Another layer of cover: Nick Cook’s ‘The Hunt for Zero Point’ examined

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] defence journalist of high repute, having been an Aviation Editor for the authoritative Jane’s Defence Weekly for fourteen years. When he says that UFO reports conceal a new technology with the potential to change the world, a technology kept secret by the US military-industrial complex for decades, he should be worth listening to. Zero […]

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Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] prospective reviewers didn’t get the point, with review copies came a press release from the publisher, which, after announcing that ‘because of the advent of the tough new Official Secrets Act….. spy-expert Chapman Pincher has been driven to disguise his disclosures about the world of secrets in the form of fiction’, helpfully listed the […]

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Vote-rigging USA

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] would have to meet certain standards (set by the Act) by the year 2006. At which point, the states will be under obligation to have purchased said new equipment. As of December 2003, 36 states have agreed to these obligations.(1) In the evolution in voting methods in America, from the mechanical lever machine of […]

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Plundering the Public Sector

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

David Craig and Richard Brooks London: Constable, 2006, £9.99, p/b   When the Blair faction took office in 1997 as ‘ New Labour’ we knew that they were going to be pro-American, pro-NATO, pro-business, anti-union and media conscious. What we did not know then was just how completely they had internalised the Thatcher ethos, […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] most noteworthy thing about it: Myrna speaks of being taken by soldiers, not aliens, after she had seen vaguely-described unusual activity taking place near Kirtland AFB in New Mexico. Davidson confirmed for me that, at the time, everyone talking to Myrna merely presumed that UFOs were involved. This is typical of the conclusion-hopping one […]

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Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] I haven’t read the offending book or heard him speak on his tour; or watched his video – is recycling a mish-mash of the American Right’s Illuminati-Trilateralism- New World Order nonsense.(1) The publicity for his ‘Robots Rebellion tour, and beyond’ speaking tour announces: ‘….humanity is being subjected to a gigantic contrick with fantastic human […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] that, say, MI5 are that sophisticated? Open Secrets is the newsletter of the Coalition on Political Assassinations. Vol. 1 number 6, for example, is 40 pages of new material on the assassination of the sixties and related events. It contains pieces on William Pepper’s excellent book Orders to Kill (reviewed above); Garrison; military intelligence […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] be familiar to Lobster readers from articles by myself and John Burnes in recent editions and there is no need to recycle it here. The most interesting new development concerns de Courcy’s connection with the Swedes. This revolved around the diplomat Bjorn Prytz, who was the intermediary between Britain and Germany in the abortive […]

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