Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
In mid-November 1993, after six years of research, 42-year old Eileen Welsome produced a gripping series of articles examining the life and death of five people — a railroad porter, a house painter, a carpenter, a politician and a homemaker — used as human guinea pigs by the US Department of Energy. Appearing in the … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
‘The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.’ – Winston Churchill On July 17, 1996, 230 people boarded TWA Flight 800 at Kennedy airport, New York. About twelve minutes after take-off, 8.31 pm, the plane exploded and crashed into the waters off Long … Read more
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
Desmond Bristow with Bill Bristow Little, Brown and co., London, 1993 Shoot the marketing department. There is almost nothing about ‘moles’ in this book. The reality is a mildly interesting account of Bristow’s MI6 career from 1940-1956, most of it spent in Spain. A few names are named — but 40 years on, who gives … Read more
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] meant, of course, is that the public was once again treated to the orthodox version of the Watergate affair, while coverage of the alternative theory was effectively suppressed (except to the extent that Liddy himself was able to articulate it). Readers of the newspaper can only have been perplexed by the jury’s 7-2 ruling […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] way. Griffiths argues, with considerable respectable-looking documentation, that the benefits of fluoride have been wildly exaggerated and the side-effects of dumping it in drinking water have been suppressed — in the interests of a chemical industry lobby. Now there’s a surprise. Covert Action Quarterly, 1500 Massachusetts Avenue, NW #272, Washington, DC 20005, USA. A […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] years ago, this seemed unlikely to me. So I e-mailed Scott who replied thus: ‘Mike got my case all wrong…..ITT (close to CIA) owned Bobbs-Merrill, and simply suppressed the book. A friend of mine went to the big annual book fair and noticed my book missing from the Bobbs-Merrill display. He raised the issue […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] black Africans — Smith now wonders if he was poisoned by the British state. Despite his complaints the Brits went ahead anyway and duly rigged the elections, suppressed a census of the population of the northern region which would have revealed what a minority the northerners were, and handed power over to their stooges […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] trial, Kennedy’s barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, said that there had been a police cover up: ‘every category of police document in the case had, since 1990, been suppressed, gone missing, or been forged’ and police officers at Hammersmith had ‘closed ranks, closed doors, closed files’. (2) There was immediate concern about the safety of […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
Feedback Mark Taha (see Lobster 21, p. 25) wrote. ‘As someone who never joined any of the groups Larry O’Hara deals with [Lobster 23] but has attended their meetings, reads their publications, once nearly joined, and describes himself as a Libertarian Conservative Nationalist, (sic!) I read his article with interested. I noticed a few errors. … Read more
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Everyone wants to work for the Guardian and be published by the Guardian’s book division. However, there is a price to be paid. Extremely serious revelations, still suppressed and unpublished by the Guardian, are out. Dorril does a Brer Rabbit and escapes the Wicked Wolf by promising a plumper rabbit is on its way. […]