Books St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona Luigi Di Fonzo (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984) This is an important publication from a new Scottish publishing house, Mainstream. It runs through Sindona’s life, showing how he came to be in such a strong financial position that he could buy the Franklin National, one of the largest banks in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] comes with endorsements from no lesser personages than Jacques Vallée and Adam Curtis. And those guys are in my A team. A big ‘thank you’ to Central Books in London who have distributed Lobster with exemplary efficiency since issue 16. Without Central Books this magazine would have folded years ago. Notes His blog is at
[…] to the useful account of the ‘birth of the Defense Intelligence Agency’. In between are a number of good essays on American intelligence which are well-serviced with notes and bibliography. It is hardly revisionist, though in an academic environment they obviously would appear to be. By far the most interesting selection is Andrew Lownie’s […]
[…] Independent on Sunday, to swap notes on the stories they were planning to run in the following day’s papers’. While the general themes Davies addresses are not new, it is these personal references – the detail of the way named senior journalists have behaved – that have drawn the most stinging criticisms from fellow […]
[…] Age of Insecurity (reviewed in Lobster 35) was a careful, detailed demolition of the delusions of the free marketeers, their loose talk of globalisation and a ‘ new world order’; and the mistakes being made by nominally left-wing parties in adopting the free market nonsense. In 1998, when this appeared, the authors’ advocacy of […]
[…] trashing of Iraq. Billions of dollars of tax dollars in ‘aid’ have been stolen, as well as all the ‘legitimate’ profits made by US corporations servicing the new semi-privatised US military.(1) In any case, going into a situation where they have some notional or actual ‘interest’, killing lots of people, wrecking the country/area concerned […]
[…] have seen, co-author with Peter Dale Scott of Cocaine Politics (University of California Press, 1991). This essay is typically dense parapolitics research, 20 pages, with 107 foot notes. Marshall shows how U.S. forces in the far East, initially in the war against Japan, and then in the desire to secure tungsten, a ‘strategic’ metal, […]
[…] front. The assassin was almost certainly a man called Eugene Thane Cesar, dressed as a security guard, standing just behind Kennedy. Committee For A Community of Democracy New group mentioned in passing in Guardian 17th January 1984. Anyone seen other references, details of membership, aims, funding etc? Smersh Ian Fleming always claimed Smersh was […]
Armen Victorian Vision Paperbacks, London, 1999, £9.99 With the addition of a four new essays, this books contains the writing of Armen Victorian published in Lobster since his first essay appeared in Lobster 23 in 1992 (and issues 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 32, 34 and 36). Most welcome of […]
