Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] (23 June). It was a long piece and we had few complaints. Larry O’Hara’s name was cut from at least one piece of research, the National Front’s Libya connection, though an attributed quote of his did remain in our conclusion. Enter Searchlight In its July issue, which appeared days after the New Statesman, Searchlight […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] which is acutely discomfited by the fact that genuinely stupid people can get to be president in the land of the brave and home of the free. Libya and Lockerbie In ‘Lockerbie trial was a CIA fix, US intelligence insider claims’, The Glasgow Herald reported some comments by Michael Scharf, who was the counsel […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] street. (Vialls does not name Hughes in the piece, but that is the outfit he means.) Vialls believes that the shooting was part of the demonization of Libya prior to the bombing of that country by the USA, with British assistance. Vialls’ attempt to prove that he committed a murder everyone else thinks done […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] the parapolitical calendar. For British readers, there are essays on the murder of junior British spook Jonathan Moyles; Dr Bull and the ‘supergun’ and Bull’s murder; framing Libya for Lockerbie; the Chinook crash which killed a large section of the British intelligence and counter-insurgency people in Northern Ireland; the Bloody Sunday inquiry; the Executive […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] The core of the book is the investigation of the various operations to smear the National Union of Mineworkers and Arthur Scargill. There is much about MI5, Libya and Roger Windsor. There is everything short of a smoking gun. However, Milne is also running a thesis about the strike which says: (a) the miners […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] a plan for the destruction of Russian chemical weapons. Several key countries suspected of having or developing chemical weapons have not signed the CWC. These include Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, N. Korea and Taiwan, and without their membership it will be difficult for the Convention meet the goal of destroying the world’s chemical weapons […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] a layer of UDA members found expression in Glen Barr’s founding of the New Ulster Political Research Group in October 1974, for which he courted funds in Libya, causing him to be condemned as a ‘Communist’ both by Ian Paisley and John Tyndale’s Spearhead. Loyalist prisoners rioted in the internment camps a month later, […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] fervour to pursue nuclear programs, no matter what the time or cost, are very different’ from traditional nuclear powers such as Britain and France. North Korea, Algeria, Libya, Iran and, of course, Iraq fit this bill. To quote: ‘They and their terrorist cousins are more likely driven by…. the desire to…. terrorise, blackmail, coerce, […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] lacked clarity’ (p. 36). I disagree.While Copsey half-heartedly describes some 1980s initiatives such as throwing out biological separatism, forging links with Black separatists and ideological sympathy for Libya (p.44), he misses out far more of relevance to today: discussions of technology, Green politics, economic policy, the role of front groups, state repression and, indeed, […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] while its brand recognition, in an ever more crowded market, remains high. Watch out for CIA merchandise! US irritations with the Italian government included its links with Libya, and the announcement that Rucco Buttiglione, Italy’s Minister for Europe, a senior Christian Democrat and friend of Pope John Paul II had said he was ready […]