Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Russell Holden Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, hb, £47.50 The author is an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘reforms’ of the Labour Party and a Senior Lecturer in European Studies. His thesis is that the changes in Labour’s policy from anti- to pro-EU membership are the core of the ‘reforming’ of Labour in the 1980s and 90s … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre Nashville (US):Nelson, 2005, Distributed in the UK by New Holland Publishers, London, at £14.99, h/b RFIDs are acoming. RFIDs are radio frequency identification or identifiers, little chips which can be fixed to, implanted in, built into almost anything from paper money to human beings; and which can then be … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Donovan Pedelty Prometheus Press, Builth Wells, Powys, £13.50 This is a fascinating book. As the Labour Party approaches its 100th birthday, Donovan Pedelty critically assesses the extent to which it has realised its aim. In a detailed and well-argued account, he shows that whereas Labour always espoused equality, nevertheless the gulf between rich and poor … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] real world, right-wing millionaire Hart is currently listed as a director of no less than twelve companies, one of which is intriguingly called the Centre for International Security and Strategic Analysis Limited. Formed in March 2003, I’ve yet to find out anything more about it. Neocon news Peter Bergen carries out a substantial demolition […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Director of the CIA in 1978 and he was in at the beginning of US involvement in Afghanistan. Later he became Reagan’s Secretary of Defence and National Security Adviser. The big US corporations fell over themselves to recruit Carlucci and he has decorated the boards of General Dynamics, Westinghouse Electric, Bell Atlantic, Neurogen, Quaker […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] of devices whose results are described in a 20-page report, Microwave Harassment and Mind-Control Experimentation by Julianne McKinney, published under the auspices of the Association of National Security Alumni. McKinney has compiled a digest of some of the known scientific research, some of the known military research, and a selection of the many allegations […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] London. Leading the rush, and spouting many weasel words, were Lord Halifax and R. A. Butler, both favourite politicians of King George VI. Concerned about ‘peace and security in Europe’, they argued that British interests really lay with the Empire and overseas trade rather than Europe. Churchill only narrowly headed this off but once […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
Most, if not all police forces already have, or are in the process of acquiring, information handling computers of some kind. The background to the present situation is best described in the pamphlet The Police Use Of Computers, parts of which were reproduced in State Research No 29, and were used by the National Computer … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] organisations and took part in the negotiation of several international treaties and agreements between 1974 and 1976. He was also involved in some aspects of the European Security Conference (the Helsinki Conference).’ 2 3 4 Byers was running the Israeli line that being critical of Israel is being anti-semitic. This is considered in a […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] UK. For a free market Tory regime could not be seen actively – let alone successfully – intervening in the domestic manufacturing economy. And because the ‘national security’ blanket could be thrown over arms sales, the payment of millions – maybe billions – of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse […]