Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, … Read more

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Confessions of a Crawler

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 1 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Pan Books, 1998, £7.99 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 2 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan, 1999, £25 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 3 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan 2000, £25 Woodrow Wyatt’s diaries are quite remarkable. Any normal persons would have tried … Read more

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Re:

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 […]

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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

Gary Webb Seven Stories Press, USA, $24.95   This appeared in San Francisco Chronicle on June 28, 1998. The Chronicle edited out a section… This has been restored and is in italics. What the Chronicle found too sensitive to publish is rather interesting – editor. Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the … Read more

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The meaning of the QinetiQ scandal

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 […]

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Mind control update

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 […]

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Origins of the Vigilant State. Honeytrap. A Putney Plot (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] interesting subsidiary trails. One is his discovery that ‘Nigel West’s’ book on the Special Branch is junk. In a paper in Vol.1 No.3 of Intelligence and National Security (see journals in this issue) Porter describes ‘West’s’ book as “the most unreliable history book ever written by anyone who has not deliberately set out to […]

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The Making of New Labour’s European Policy

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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

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Correspondence

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] There is no way Leigh has any sympathies with fascism, national socialism, racialism or anti-semitism. (Incidentally, his close friend and co-founder of the Coalition For Peace Through Security, Julian Lewis, is Jewish.)” From Ace R. Hayes, Oregon, USA. “Re: Shooting the Pope. I have fired thousands of rounds through all sorts of hand guns. […]

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From roll back to blowback

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] that we were creating a monster”, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on “Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia”.’ ‘…….Harrison said: “The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan. […]

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