[…] he bought and sold rare books. But he was also in touch with people in the US who were JFK assassination buffs – and no, I don’t mind the word buff; I’m a buff – and got JFK books for us. Steve lived 70 miles from me but we began corresponding and talking on […]
John McMurtry London: Pluto Press, 2002, pb £15.99 I shouldn’t be reviewing this. I haven’t digested it properly and it is going to take some time to do so. But I don’t want to leave this for six months without promoting it. I used to try and preserve books in good condition, didn’t write […]
[…] produced, as if by magic, chatty grenades, exploding first in central Europe and then the UK, disturbing the smooth efficiency of the schedules and the peace of mind of the broadcasters with happy regularity. After Dark turned out to be some kind of anti-television experiment, a programme which, despite the careful plans and preparations […]
[…] thereby to draw some very general conclusions about the nature and meaning of police power. I suggested that the audience might bear one very simple criterion in mind when considering the changing nature of police power, namely the high level of arrests over the last few years: 10,000 during the miners’ strike; 200-400 during […]
[…] argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control (UDC). And when I first come across the term ‘public diplomacy’ the UDC came to mind. But in the case of ‘public diplomacy’, while public does mean open, diplomacy doesn’t mean diplomacy. ‘Public diplomacy’ is a recent term for a range of […]
[…] in counter-intelligence parlance as “gray” intelligence. The question of whether they are genuine, authentic or real is not the issue here. The important point to keep in mind, as I believe, is the information contained in the documents themselves. For in these documents and the FOIA material already released, and the published facts contain […]
[…] book. Not that it isn’t an interesting read: it is. But you would have to be seriously incompetent to make uninteresting a subject list which includes assassination, mind control, the occult, extraterrestrials, channelling etc. My problems are with the author’s belief in the Jungian notion of synchronicity, in his words: ‘another mechanism in the […]
[…] she could have gone down fighting. Instead, she gave in and quit — just as she had done in 198081 over Monetary Base Control. Notes A Single Mind, MacMillan, 1989. This distinction is all the more interesting for in Joseph’s case, as Halcrow’s biography is honest enough to point out, Joseph’s conversion to monetarism […]
Brian Burkitt and Andy Mullen Congress for Democracy (www.congressfordemocracy.org.uk) 38 pages, £5 in UK This is a useful companion piece to Andy Mullen’s essay in this issue. The authors believe that whatever this government says its policy towards the euro is, it has decided to enter the euro and is ‘playing a long game…. preparing … Read more
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 the … Read more
