Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] and the UDA would work together, because both organisations have the working people at heart’ (Boulton, 1974; 182-183). Sadly, for all that Glen Barr’s founding of the New Ulster Political Research Group in November 1974 (in the aftermath of the UWC Strike) represented a genuine attempt to find a working class alternative to sectarianism, […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] found a number of CIA documents on the 140 MKULTRA sub-projects with references to radiation. In sub-project 35, for example, the CIA secretly provided $375,000 for a new wing at Georgetown University Hospital in 1950s, to be used in chemical and biological programs. Dr. Charles F. Geschickter, a Georgetown doctor, provided cover for the […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] politics was central to both Blair and Berlusconi, even if both goals were quickly exposed as being, at best, ‘unrealistic’.(2) But the links between Forza Italia and New Labour go much deeper than having common roots, shared vision and reflecting growing trends in cultural politics. Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi were the highest expression […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
In 1953 Dr Drank Olsen, a scientist working for the CIA, was found dead on the pavement outside a New York hotel. The Agency instituted a cover-up of the circumstances of his death. The cover-up survived until 1975 when it was revealed that Olsen had been one of many people who had been unwittingly […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Sherman Oaks (California): Citizens for the Truth about the Kennedy Assassination, 1995. xii + 58 pps. Notes, bibliography, index. A fine bit of research with stacks of new information about Shaw. This guy, as many of us have suspected, was no Joe Sixpack who just happened to wander in ‘off the street’ and find […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] In their report AIR stressed the available possibilities of developments, including lasers, electromagnetic frequencies and sound. These techniques are currently under serious development, some under the so-called new concept of non-lethal weapons.(4) Dr. J. G. Pratt, one of the first western researchers, who visited the Soviet Union after the publication of Vasiliev’s work,(5) described […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] world’s biggest heroin dealer, Khun Sa, and corrupt Pakistani officials, drug profiteers and the CIA.(7) By 1986, when BCCI financed the HAWK missile deal, US authorities k new the bank to be a far-flung criminal enterprise. Acting CIA director Richard Kerr told Congress that his agency was well aware by the early 1980s that […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
On the 12th February 1967, Rosemary James of the New Orleans States-Item newspaper discovered that Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, had spent more than $8,000 on his own investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy. (The story appeared on the front page on February 20th.) Two weeks later the DA’s office announced […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] Francisco Chronicle). As of April 13, 1987, the Washington Post reported that both the House and Senate Committees investigating Irangate and Special Investigator Lawrence Walsh have requested new documents and evidence dating back to the beginning of Reagan’s first presidential term – that is, to the very day that Richard Allen has reported Reagan […]
