Twilight in the desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] bubble formation is one of the indications of the oil diminishing. The need for horizontal as opposed to vertical wells and the lack of discoveries of any new reserves of substance since the 1960s, combined with some astounding political legerdemain, makes this book a necessary primer for the British government if it is to […]

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Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

Robert Whiting, New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. ISBN 0-679-41976-4.   Sergeant Nick Zappetti first arrived in Japan during the late summer of 1945, one of the tens of thousands of US occupation troops who landed there after V-J Day. Unlike most of the others, Zappetti immediately went into business for himself and set up […]

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I am being slagged off, therefore I am

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] KGB about Lobster can only have been, at best, about issues 1-6. In other words, this is bullshit, Mr Gordiefsky merely passing on a smear from his new employers in that funny Lego building being erected on the bank of the River Thames in London. On 22 November, three days after this curious telephone […]

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The Terrorism Industry (Book review)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

The Terrorism Industry Edward Herman and Gerry O’Sullivan, Pantheon Books, New York, 1989, $15.95. Since the revelation of the activities of Forum World Features in the mid 1970s, it has become apparent that Western intelligence services have used ‘research institutes’ and ‘study centres’ with impressive and neutral-sounding titles to put over their world view […]

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A short history of Lobster

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[…] prison. Steve met Fred and Colin and we received some of Wallace’s writings about his time in Ireland. These documents were almost unintelligible initially: a blizzard of new organisations, names and events. We headed for our respective university libraries to try and make sense of this material and discovered that, with Wallace’s narratives as […]

West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

William Blum New York: Soft Skull Press, 2002, $15 www.softskull.com   The working lives of writers, especially writers of non-fiction like Blum – or me – are rather dull. To produce Lobster and my other bits and pieces I have to stay in one place, read e-mails every day, books, newspapers, visit libraries, go […]

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Lobster Issue 31: Contents

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 […]

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Web update

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] www.statewatch.org/news/2002/aug/05Adataret.htm Confidential Europol document on data retention http://www.radicalparty.org/europol/europol.pdf See also cryptome.org/europol-rape.htm which gives a more readable version of the Europol document. EPIC’s International Data Retention page http://www.epic.org/privacy/intl/data_retention.html Latest news from round the world on data retention; documents; campaigns; EU member states’ implementation of data retention; info and links. Network Against Data Retention http://www.stop1984.com/netzwerk Initiative […]

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Britain’s Role in Human Nuclear Experiments: what’s been did and what’s been hid

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 […]

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MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] to emerge which will make the pieces slot into place. I had the feeling again reading the Lammers’ book; but, alas, once again the puzzle remains unsolved. Notes Don’t write and tell me the figures are wrong. It is a while since I read the book and maybe it was 300,000 and 25,000. Confirmation […]

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