Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. The fact remains that prior to about 1970, the invocation of an alleged “national interest” seems to have protected those actively involved in the intelligence-Mafia connection from serious harassment by either the courts or the establishment press. (For the sake of verifiability we shall define the ‘establishment media’ as … Read more
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
A spook, moi? One of the formative experiences of my youth – and we’re talking early 1960s here, beatnik days, when wearing a narrow leather tie was pretty hip – was going to the Mound in Edinburgh on Sunday nights. The Mound is like Hyde Park Corner in London, a place where local by-laws allow … Read more
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and … Read more
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] and 159,705 veterans injured or ill. That is a casualty rate of 29.3% for combat related duties between 1990 and 1991! Details at < http://traprockpeace.org/gulf casualties.html > Senator Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, West Virginia) pointed out in the Senate on 26 September: ‘We have a paper trail. We not only know that Iraq has […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
Wick the forgotten One of the most prestigious, yet least challenging, posts in British journalism is that of Washington correspondent. Prestigious because of the importance of the United States; but least challenging because the natives speak English, more or less; and there are so many ready-made stories ripe for recycling to Britain, as the Internet … Read more
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] which may be familiar to students of the British right. (See the many index entries in Derrick Knight’s Beyond the Pale, for example.) Lewis was a Rhodesian Senator under Ian Smith’s regime, and used to lead the Rhodesian Christian Group. For some years now he has been issuing occasional newletters, mostly about events in […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 $75.00 (US), £37.99 (UK), h/b This is an interesting and timely book and it is a great pity it is so expensive. Put out as a paperback and maybe with a less academic-sounding title, this would sell. Little of it is intellectually taxing and any … Read more
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what … Read more
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
Shorts Yorkshire Post (14 March ’92) reported the admission by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important … Read more
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Peter Taylor has made more TV programmes about Northern Ireland since 1969 than other any British journalist. His most recent was the documentary, Loyalists, earlier this year, a series of interviews with Loyalist paramilitaries and politicians. This was followed by a book, Loyalists (Bloomsbury, 1999), which contained some of the interviews in that programme. Like … Read more
