Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] statecraft, which generates legitimacy and acknowledges that in our globalized world the state has lost its monopoly on the processing and diffusion of information.’ (p. 57) ‘This new imperialism….may threaten, coerce and at times even invade, but it does so with the claim to improve (that is, democratize) states and then leave.’ (p. 59) […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] this dilemma by retracting his pre-1987 claims about MI5 plots against Wilson. He began this in his The Spycatcher Affair:a Web of Deception, and continues in this new book. The Truth About Dirty Tricks also contains a staggeringly inaccurate chapter on the Colin Wallace Affair. After a life-time of recycling official ‘leaks’, Pincher was […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] countries, Fortean Times; also links to related newsgroups. Area 51 http://www.ufomind.com/area51/ Critical assessment of Area 51 and the conspiracy theories surrounding it. Includes FAQs, articles, maps, photos, latest news, testimonials, UFO claims, articles from national and other newspapers, and the claims of Bob Lazar. Lazar’s site is at http://www.ufomind.com/area51/people/lazar/ Organisations and Campaigns Federation of […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] the Warren Commission report (which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time to scan the Commission’s published report and documents for new pretexts for questioning, and there has been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission’s findings. In most cases the critics have speculated as […]
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 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] and distance itself from Republican goals enabled a self-serving rabble-rouser like Ian Paisley to contribute to the biggest example of self-fulfilling prophecy in history. There is new material on the emergence of McKeague’s Shankill Defence Association from Paisley’s Ulster Protestant Volunteers.() Unfortunately, there is nothing on McKeague’s paedophile activities, e.g. at Kincora Boys […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] became, with others, a partner in Edsaco, while moving the administration of Berlusconi’s various offshore companies to Withers, the established law firm in which he became a new partner. As also recorded in this verdict, other Withers partners now began to take part in the administration of Berlusconi’s offshore companies. (2) This was not […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] an enigma: the fiery left wing Labour MP who became one of Mosley’s fascists, an unrepentant anti-Semite and war-time internee. How to explain this trajectory? Francis Beckett’s new biography is of particular interest because it is an attempt by the man’s son, a left wing journalist (New Statesman education correspondent) and historian, to understand […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] which experienced spectacular post-war growth but then faced increasing difficulties in sustaining it. Japan’s growth rate, which once led to the Japanese economy being proposed as a new model for the older Western economies, has been sluggish throughout the nineties, and is currently virtually zero. Mills’ book traces the patterns of the world’s economies […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] and detailed examination of current (Griffin) BNP ideology, Copsey tells us ‘the trained eye does not have to look too far to find evidence that Griffin’s “ new” BNP is not that different to the BNP of “old” ‘ (p. 170). He draws attention to two ‘ideal types’ on the far right: ‘revolutionary nationalist’ […]
