Drugs, oil and war

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b   On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those political … Read more

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Steady as she goes: Labour and the spooks

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs … Read more

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Secret State, Silent Press: new militarism, the Gulf and the modern image of warfare

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

Richard Keeble University of Luton Press, Luton, 1997, £14.95 Richard Keeble – a former journalist and now Course Director of the BA in Journalism degree at City University, London – makes his stance clear in the first chapter of this well researched study: There was no Gulf war of 1991…It was nothing less than a … Read more

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The covert origins of the Biafran War

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] act.”‘ A mild sort of social democrat member of the Labour Party, Smith complained to head office when he was next in London. Head Office threatened to kill him, but settled for destroying his career — hence Smith pictured working as a clerk at a labour exchange in 1959. He also brought back with […]

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Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

See note (1) David Phillips, the former CIA officer considered by the Select Committee on Assassinations as a possible candidate for the true identity behind the cover name ‘”Maurice Bishop” -(2)- reacted strongly when this book was published in the summer of 1980. He contacted top executives in newspapers and television, making himself available to … Read more

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Non-lethal weapons This is a scam, essentially. A smoke-screen of wacky bits and pieces – sticky stuff and gooey stuff and slippery stuff – conceals the real agenda, the development of various form of energy weapons. There was a big conference – billed ‘secret US only’ – in June this year, a ‘Detailed review of … Read more

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

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

Hess: A Tale of Two Murders Hugh Thomas Hodder and Stoughton, London 1988 This is an update of Thomas’ 1979, The Murder of Rudolf Hess. Thomas argues (a) that the ‘Hess’ in Spandau prison wasn’t Hess at all but a double; and (b) that both the real and false Hess were murdered. The first proposition … Read more

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Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] and from Hollywood films to literary novels, those seven seconds of mayhem in Dealey Plaza have been relentlessly examined for clues not just to a plot to kill the President, but to the hidden agenda of the last four decades of American history.’ A cute phrase, that: ‘seven seconds of mayhem.’ But, mayhem? I […]

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The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

A stranger harvest The best single volume on the alien abduction connundrum I have come across is C.D. B. Bryan’s Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1995). In it Linda Moulton Howe, the American film-maker who made A Strange Harvest about the ‘cattle mutilation’ phenomenon in the United States, describes to … Read more

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We’re breaking new ground: Operation Century

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

Ian Cameron 17pp + 11pp documents £2.50 incl. p&p from 10 Knox Court, Studley Road, London SW4 6SA. I’ve got fucking A levels in fucking whacking fucking people…. Your fucking ceasefire’s going….I’ll be in touch with you fucking soon….You watch your fucking car. On 9 February 1996 the IRA ended its cease fire by bombing … Read more

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