Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the corruption of international justice John Laughland London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press; 2007, £14.99 (UK) $24.95 (US), p/b   Laughland is an interesting figure, whose writing appears in media across the ideological spectrum, from the conservative right to The Guardian and here, Pluto Press. It is thus … Read more

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The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Benny Morris London: I. B Tauris, 2002, £24.50, h/b   In report after report on the major media we hear about or see pictures of ‘refugee camps’ in Israel – and no-one ever explains from where the refugees came. Perhaps editors think we know already. Benny Morris is an Israeli historian who became well known … Read more

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Remote Viewing and the US intelligence community

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] C. Byrd . In the course of the programme, C. Richard D’Amoto, Senator Byrd’s staff member, and an intelligence specialist, several times successfully quashed DIA’s effort to kill the RV programme. British newspapers gave a variety of figures. The Sunday Times, December 3, 1995, quoted the figure $12 million, and Guardian, September 30, 1995, […]

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Why are we with Uncle Sam?

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – … Read more

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First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster special … Read more

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Sources: Spectre. CAQ, etc

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

Spectre In the last Lobster 35 I reported on the new anti-EU magazine Spectre and wondered about its political orientation. In response, the editor, Steve McGiffen, sent an exemplary piece of candour from which here are some extracts. ‘….. Our original statement, sent out very widely, made it clear that we are minimalist to a … Read more

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Enemies of the State

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] offers us a jumbled but fascinating story about Searchlight editor Gerry Gable. We are told that in 1986 there was evidence of an attempt to abduct and kill Gable, who then spoke to ‘a friend in Special Branch who decided to arrange armed bodyguards to watch over him’. This murder attempt involved a private […]

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The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 $75.00 (US), £37.99 (UK), h/b   This is an interesting and timely book and it is a great pity it is so expensive. Put out as a paperback and maybe with a less academic-sounding title, this would sell. Little of it is intellectually taxing and any … Read more

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Malcolm Kennedy: secrecy ruling

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Abstract The Tribunal established to investigate complaints about phone-tapping and the activities of the intelligence agencies has, at its first ever public hearing, quashed rules made by the Home Secretary forcing the tribunal to hold all its hearings in secret. However, the Tribunal procedure remains too secret, and its decisions cannot be appealed. Malcolm Kennedy’s … Read more

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The getting elected project

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] fundamentally neo-conservative NuLab were a group of ex-CPGB members and one ex-Trot (Mulgan), who in their left incarnations despised the Labour Party, and finally got to help kill it off.(2) Notes Leadbetter’s views on the current economic crisis in late October are at A sample: ‘This is the high-water mark of the deregulated, bonus-driven, […]

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