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 16 (1988) £££
[…] to by the Privy Council since 1970” produced half an answer. Since 1980, Livingstone was told, the list has included Campaign, Economist, Farmers Weekly, Financial Weekly, Listener, New Scientist, New Society, New Statesman, Now, Private Eye, Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, Tribune and the UK Press Gazette.It is a pity that no information was available […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: a substitute for imperialism ( New York: Grove Press, 1969). This is on p.21: ‘Pentagonism nonetheless differs from imperialism in that it does not share its most characteristic feature, military conquest of […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] sometimes not. Even the Bilderbergers have a pecking order. Britain’s Peter Mandelson arrived in a bus (emphasis added). (1) What a coincidence! The day before the government’s new Bill to increase its anti-terrorism powers came into force the Sunday Telegraph (18 February) carried a story headed, ‘Police foil terror plot to use sarin gas […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] 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 […]
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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] 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 […]
