Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Colin Challen MP First, buy your senator It wasn’t long after their election in 2000 that the business backgrounds of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney became mired in controversy. Cheney’s business career was not as long as Bush’s, but it personifies the role of crony capitalism endemic to U.S. politics. Cheney’s role as Halliburton’s … Read more

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Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state … Read more

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War and peace plots

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Hitler’s spy chief: – the Wilhelm Canaris mystery Richard Bassett London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005, £20   This is a full and very well researched biography of one of the great enigmatic figures of the spy world in the 30s and 40s. The author, former foreign correspondent of The Times in Berlin and Prague, provides … Read more

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The CIA and the Culture of Failure

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the … Read more

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Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] 11 September even after “running out of targets in Afghanistan”; to finish a job that George H.W. Bush had left undone; to avenge Saddam’s 1993 attempt to assassinate the first President Bush; to field-test Rumsfeld’s proposals for military reform; to reduce US dependency on the Saudis by securing some leverage over Iraqi oil supplies; […]

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Book Reviews

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Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

Through The Looking Glass: British Foreign Policy In An Age Of Illusions Anthony Verrier (Cape, London 1983) This will probably turn out to be an important book, maybe even a little landmark in the (scanty) literature on British foreign policy since the war. So far it has been largely ignored by the literary/political establishment, receiving … Read more

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The Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

See note (1) James ‘Bo’ Gritz, linked to the US Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), was detained with Lance Corp. Edward Trimmer whilst trying to enter Thailand. (Guardian 23rd September 1983) They were apparently on another mission looking for American POWs. In December, for the first time since 1975, American troops were in Laos investigating … Read more

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Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

During the current farcical trial of Ali Agca a most interesting snippet appeared in the press which looks like finally seeing off the alleged ‘Bulgarian connection.’ Signor Giovanni Pandico, a jailed former member of the upper echelons of the Naples-based Camorra, claimed that it had played a part in convincing Agca to accept the role … Read more

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Major Farran’s Hat

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] Farran walked free after a token court-martial presided over by that arch-reactionary, Melford Stevenson. He returned to Britain a hero. The LEHI did make an attempt to assassinate him, but their bomb killed his wholly innocent brother, Rex, by mistake. Cesarani makes the point that the killing of Alexander Rubowitz is a challenge to […]

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Lobster Issue 31: Contents

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Parish Notices Mrs Anthony Verney died in early March this year. With her husband, Anthony, she was irradiated by persons unknown, for reasons unknown, at their retirement home in Kent. She is the first UK fatality of which I am aware resulting from the new generation of electro-magnetic weaponry; and it says much about this … Read more

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