Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] Kronisch, as executrix of his estate, proceed with the suit – despite a series of legal setbacks. Then on 9 July 1998, according to the 13 July New York Law Journal, Judge Jose A Cadranes, ‘writing for a unanimous court’, ruled that an ‘adverse influence’ could be drawn from Dr Gottlieb’s destruction of documents, […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] NACRO, The Howard League for Prison Reform Trust useful or otherwise though at times these last may well have been. It is crucial to appreciate which new groups emerged, when, how and in certain cases who was involved and, the extent to which (ie. on which matters they separately as well as jointly […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] US government is the chief protagonist and the US military-industrial complex the chief beneficiary’. ( p.109) In his introduction Winer writes: ‘Progressive ideology cries out for a new kind of critical analysis and an enhanced quality of historical interpretation’. ‘Progressive ideology’? Yes, the author is apparently an apologist for the Soviet Union. For example […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
‘Let me through! I’m an academic conspiracy expert.’ Peter Knight London and New York: Routledge, 2000 p/b £16.99, h/b £60 Page one of this book or, rather more accurately, page ix, the first page of text, saw my heart sinking. There, above the preface, was a quote from Don DeLillo’s novel about Lee […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] of microwaves and mind control continue to produce items of significance: the subject is finally breaking through into the mainstream media. For example a piece in the New Scientist of 6 February 2000 described experiments being conducted using magnetism on the brain. It begins thus. Aim a magnet at a healthy brain, and the […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Ward (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987), pp. 141-2. And, further, David Thurlow’s Profumo: The Hate Factor (London: Robert Hale, 1992), pp. 92-3. Michael Eddowes, The Oswald File (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1977), p. 228. Osborne deserves a book to himself. When Oswald took the Continental Trailways coach to Mexico in September 1963 Osborne […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
NFTB There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry O’Hara’s Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ‘journo-cops’, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is £3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is £7.50. Outside the […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] phrases from the sentence where I relate what Rep. Smith told me. I won’t cut the whole sentence, just the last fourteen words. Then I’ll put this new version out on the wire.’ Edwards: ‘Kick doesn’t even suggest that some kinds of change are being made more than others: “Overall, the changes are usually […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] the problem.’ According to one former CIA operative, we are ‘an Islamist swamp’. So much so that 40 per cent of ‘CIA activity designed to prevent a new terrorist spectacular on American soil is now directed at targets in the UK.’(11) Top of the form One of the by-products of the ‘War on Terror’ […]