[…] WW2 UFO flap in the United States. Scott Van Wynsberghe locates the Kennedy assassination author Paris Flammonde on the Long John Knebel Show, a radio chat-show in New York, apparently with a reputation of giving space to UFO reports. As far as I am aware Long John Knebel first surfaced in this country in […]
[…] self-knowledge, lack of which has cost the American people and millions of others, dear. Had, however, the US government been able to make the leap, its slick new Office of Global Communications (7) could, even now, print up a T-shirt with the American flag and one word – ‘Sorry’. America, as with the British […]
[…] any of this relevant to the book? Well, here he goes again, defending Mil-osevich – whom he has defended before – while analysing his trial and the new court body, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) which was trying him. I didn’t pay particular attention to either the break-up of Yugoslavia […]
[…] In quite separate proceedings, Kennedy’s original case has been referred to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body set up to review suspected miscarriages of justice, after new evidence was uncovered that throws fresh light on the case. Framed by the police Kennedy was convicted of manslaughter in 1994, after three trials and an […]
[…] and exported all around the world and one of its implicit messages was that railways should be run as a single unitary authority; but John Major k new better (with his rushed through privatisation) and New Labour, despite pre-election undertakings to re-nationalise the industry, just went belly-up on the proposal. Remember Tony Blair in […]
Russ Kick (ed) New York, The Disinformation Company, 2003, 350pp, $24.95 / £17.99 (available in the UK from Counter Productions and Turnaround Distribution) ISBN 0-9713942-4-5 This is the third compilation of essays from Disinformation, and, unlike the first two, nearly all the essays in this anthology have been written specifically for this publication, […]
Heather Brooke London: Pluto Press, 2007, £13.99, p/b The first edition of this was reviewed in Lobster 49 by Jane Affleck. This new edition comes adorned with praise from Ian Hislop (who writes a foreword), Greg Palast and Michael Crick. (Jane Affleck thought the first edition was pretty nifty.) This is not a […]
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 […]
[…] Labour Revisionists, Atlanticism and the Cold War’ (Contemporary British History, Autumn 2001) is a very interesting paper, (29 pages with 150 notes) which contains a lot of new material. Black is that unusual creature, an academic historian who has included Bilderberg in his account. AIDS Remember all the conspiracy theories claiming that the AIDS […]
How often does the conspiracy buff/ parapolitics connoisseur stumble upon a new, all-colour, glossy parapolitics magazine at W. H. Smith’s at Euston Station? Not that often. When I called Private Eye to mail order a copy of Paul Foot’s fascinating report on the Lockerbie trial, I was assured that I could buy a copy […]
