The state in politics: Wallace, Holroyd and Lobster

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] the context of the Kincora Boys Home scandal. In 1985 Fred Holroyd was trying to get the media to take an interest. Duncan Campbell, then at the New Statesman, had written a series of pieces about Holroyd’s account of illegal military and intelligence operations in Northern Ireland. Wallace read them in prison and made […]

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The Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] ‘POW sightings’. In one interview he claimed that he had taken Russian roulette games a la film The Deer Hunter. (International Herald Tribune 24 March 1983) A new faction book, J.C. Pollock, MIA Mission (New English Library, 1983) tells the story of these bizarre searches, based on the operations of Sarg. Major Daniel Lee Pitzer, […]

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The Crux of the Matter

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] organisation to start with than the Trade and Development Agency (TDA), set up in 1981 – and which, in 1991, had been authorised to operate in the New Independent States of the ex-USSR. It clearly sets out its aims in its May 2001 report: ‘The Trade and Development Agency (TDA), an independent US government […]

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Fascism: Theory and Practice

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Dave Renton Pluto, London, 1999, £9.99   This book has been touted in some areas as a radical, new contribution to the study of fascism; and it is certainly well-packaged and cheap. To start with the good points which, although few, are important: if you want to know who the current academic theorists on […]

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Mob Rule. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] was involved in creating organised crime in the US. After Meyer Lansky, who was Jewish, had formed his partnership with Lucky Luciano, who was Italian, in 1920’s New York, organised crime became a completely multi-ethnic enterprise. The Mafia soon came to an understanding with the gangs which had originated in other ethnic groups. Everyone, […]

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Smearing Wallace and Holroyd

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] and Private Eye (item 7 below).This Independent smear – which is what it was – included all the standard anti-Wallace material plus one or two of the new lines developed by the M.O.D. during the summer. It included a variant on the Ulster Citizens’ Army smear analysed in Lobster 14. This is quite the […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] The author concludes that the view of Bilderberg as a seat of hidden global government comes closest to the truth. Hugh Wilford, ‘CIA plot, socialist conspiracy or New World Order? The origins of the Bilderberg Group 1952-55’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 14 (3) (2003) pp. 70-82. Is there intelligent life out there? Alan Block confirms […]

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Hess, ‘Hess’ and the ‘peace Party’ (Book review)

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] presented to the Churchill, pro-war, anti-Hitler faction in the British establishment By June 1940 this series of possibly interlinked manoeuvres against the war was aborted by the new Churchill Cabinet. But new attempts were made. One involved Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, who was also looking for a way to peace. He contacted the intellectual […]

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At Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain’s Intelligence Agency, MI6

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] it be noted, he is not Professor Rupert Allason but Professor Nigel West. (Is he the first academic to be employed under a nom de plume?) This new one has the same faults as the others. In the introduction he lists a bunch of retired intelligence officers who helped him write this but there […]

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The Jewish Holocaust: held captive by its remembrance or liberated by its lessons?

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] Fall and Rise of Antisemitism William D Rubinstein London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2008, £10.00 The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from its Ashes Avraham Burg New York: Palgrave Macmillan, £15.99 A Time To Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity Edited by Anne Karpf, Brian Klug, Jacqueline Rose […]

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