Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] with howls of execration but not a word in this speech was falsified. But then Ken Livingstone had done his homework, and it shows. It is hardly new material: most of Fred Holroyd’s allegations were made nearly 4 years ago in the New Statesman and on Channel 4’s Diverse Reports. There is a major […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] irradiated by persons unknown, for reasons unknown, at their retirement home in Kent. She is the first UK fatality of which I am aware resulting from the new generation of electro-magnetic weaponry; and it says much about this society, its government and its mass media, that her death will go unexamined. Roger Sandell died […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] British state. Robin Ramsay Britain’s Role in Human Nuclear Experiments: what’s been did and what’s been hid Armen Victorian Eileen Welsome’s articles in the Albuquerque Tribune in New Mexico in 1993, described a series of human experiments by the US Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Energy (DOE) and led up to the […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] the early 1980s to the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe. For Kamm, these reflected ‘….a curious belief – reinforced by loose talk from a new President, Ronald Reagan – that a new generation of intermediate missiles was being deployed in order to fight a “limited” nuclear war in Europe. The notion […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] off the cops and the local Democratic Party. Unaware of the intelligence connections of the laundry, or the money (and votes) given by the Dominicans to the New York Democratic Party, the head of the anti-smuggling unit of the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) in New York leads a multi-agency task force to investigate […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] systems in the West in the past decade has been the status of the claims made by KGB defector Golitsyn. Until recently all the book-reading public k new about Golitsyn was (a) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b) made a series of quite bizarre sounding claims to the effect that […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] of this and bought it for about $30 and it isn’t worth the money. This is a detailed account of some of the intellectual processes behind ‘ New Labour’, focusing on IPPR and Demos in particular. The author has read the documents, articles and pamphlets produced by the little group of intellectuals who paved […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] they’ve said. Or not said. In a universe of anonymous sources, we’re increasingly informed by ‘creative’ writers like Jason Blair at the Times, Stephen Glass at the New Republic, Jack Kelly at USA Today, and Woodward’s own protégé at the Post, Janet Cooke. Not surprisingly, the public becomes increasingly cynical as ‘news’ devolves into […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] p.365 we are told that Reilly/Rosenblum was ‘….one of the early architects of the international drugs trade….’. This is advanced because one Arnold Rothstein – a significant New York gangster in the ’20s – organised shipments of poppy seeds (5) from Manchuria to Latvia (with passage across the Soviet Union facilitated by Bolshevik functionaries) […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] as the war began, corresponding with some of the major poets of the day, publishing a poetry magazine, and studying a particular kind of literary theory, the New Criticism, which teaches the adept how to read the layers of meaning in a text. So here is one the author’s theses: the skills Angleton acquired […]