Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Heather Brooke London: Pluto Press, 2005, £12.99 p/b This book is an invaluable guide for anyone thinking of using the new access laws chiefly the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations to obtain information from public authorities. It tells you how to go about obtaining information and appealing, […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] 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 […]
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 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] in advance. Which brings me to Russ Kick’s vast and sprawling collection – 400 large format pages, 65 pieces by 55 contributors. No loon material here: no New World Order, no alien abductions, no faked moon landings. Instead, there are pieces on media control and political scandals and cover-ups and the rewriting of history. […]
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 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] evidence falls very far short of claims that the Bilderbergers created the oil price hike. Indeed, the evidence offered by Newton suggests that all this was ‘in the wind’ at the time. Notes You can read Palast’s recent journalism at his new Website www.gregpalast.com http://www.radiopinoyusa.com/matanglawin/ml-09-25-2000.html The Akins in the Bilderberg minutes discussed above – RR
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
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 […]
