Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] intelligence-Mafia connection from serious harassment by either the courts or the establishment press. (For the sake of verifiability we shall define the ‘establishment media’ as including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time-Life, Newsweek, Readers Digest and the three major television networks). Since Watergate, and the dramatic collapse of the press-government anti-Communist consensus, […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] in 1981 — Labour policy towards Europe? Labour and Europe? On the face of it this would seem a more promising and principled basis for launching a new party than fear of the somewhat arcane activities of local party management committees. After all, the leadership quartet were central to that section of the Labour […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
The unspeakable Martin Kettle of The Guardian is a political journalist who has been pretty close to, and supportive of, New Labour since the 1990s. His article ‘The special relationship that squandered a noble cause’ (27 May 2006) opened with this: ‘The long arc of Tony Blair’s rise and decline has been punctuated by […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] side that made the other side blink. The Soviet denials were utterly unconvincing, but so were the U. S. claims that it had known nothing in ‘ real time’ of the aircraft’s disastrous deviation from its flight path and so was unable to warn it. In January of 1984, with the public finger pointing […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Tory was able to become party leader and moreover transform Labour into a centre right party, into another, indeed, into the main British conservative party. The ‘ New’ in New Labour really meant, as one Blairite eloquently put it, ‘Not’ Labour; and this is certainly how it has turned out. Under Blair, New Labour […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
Kevin Coogan, Autonomedia, New York, 1999. $16.95 www.autonomedia.org When Francis Parker Yockey met his own personal Ernstfall with his typically vaudevillian suicide by cyanide pill, dressed only in his underpants and a pair of jack boots, it frustrated an eight year FBI manhunt for the ‘mystery man’. The impact of his gesture was no […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] letters to Diana from Prince Philip. A package of these was claimed to exist by Paul Burrell and this was apparently independently confirmed by a police officer’s notes. However: ‘The MPS does not have any such letters. Specific enquiries have been made with the Exhibits Officer involved in the Paul Burrell trial. No letters […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
Peter Dale Scott University of California Press (paperback edition, with new preface) 1996, $14.95 ‘The key to understanding Deep Politics is the distinction I propose between traditional conspiracy theory, looking at conscious secret collaborations towards shared ends, and deep political analysis, defined as “the study of all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate […]
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 […]
