Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Election fraud Further to ‘How to fix an Election’ in Lobster 43, more news on the gentle art of perfuming a skunk. First Pick Your Voters Some strong contenders here. But first out of the hat is the Labour Party for performance during the all-postal voting experiments that were tried across the country in the … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akcam London: Constable, 2007, 576 pp., £9.99, p/b The Kurdish and Armenian Genocides: From Censorship and Denial to Recognition Desmond Fernandes Apec Forlag: 2008, 309 pp., £16.99, p/b Denial of the Holocaust is very much the preserve of the fascist right and … Read more
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
Dangerous Liaison Between EU Institutions and Industry This is the first publication of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Amsterdam-based foundation which will ‘monitor and report on the activities of European corporations and their lobby groups’. Very nicely produced and illustrated, this is 72 A-4 pages and costs £5.00 in the U.K. and US $10.00 in … Read more
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] Conspiracy Tracker, published in Patterson, New Jersey, was up to issue 21 when I approached it, and its list of back issues featured these gems: ‘Did Masons kill JFK, Pope John Paul 1, Princess Grace?’ (no. 4) and ‘Discover how UFO beliefs are being manipulated to create social change — and how this ties […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Oliver Kamm London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2005, h/b, £13.99 Kamms’ Anti-totalitarianism was published in the same week and possibly on the same day as the Henry Jackson Society announced itself to the world. So this is a kind of manifesto for that group. ([4] ) It’s a nice try, in a way, this … Read more
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
Oleg Kalugin, Smith Gryphon, London 1994 Subtitled ‘My 32 years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West’, this is a mildly interesting read if you want to know how the crumbling Soviet empire looked to an intelligent radical inside the Soviet system. There might be some fragments of interest to those seriously interested in the … Read more
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie Giles Scott-Smith,(1) who wrote about the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Lobster 36 and 38, has written a very interesting study of Margaret Thatcher’s first visit to America in 1967.(2) Scott-Smith shows that Thatcher, then a junior shadow spokesperson in the Tory Party, was talent-spotted by the State Department’s man in the … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
Let us now praise famous researchers Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the first generation critics of the Warren Report John Kelin San Antonio, Texas: Wings Press, 2007. xviii + 585pps. Bibliography, Notes, Sources, etc. Illustrated. $29.95. Reviewed by Anthony Frewin While the literature critical of the Warren Commission’s … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] most sensitive behavioural activities and programmes, seven sub-projects, mostly dealing with most deadly means of developing chemical and biological substances which would disorient, discredit, injure and even kill the targets. Many unwitting subjects fell victim to these programmes. Using various National Institute of Mental Health hospitals and facilities, Dr. Harris Isabel ran an Addiction […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
John Armstrong Arlington, Texas: Quasar Ltd., 2003 $40, plus postage, from <www.jfkresearch.com/armstrong/> This is a major publishing event in the JFK assassination world. Parts of Armstrong’s work has been on the Net and he’s spoken at some of the big JFK conferences. His work-in-progress became spoken of as ‘the John Armstrong research’; and finally … Read more