[…] most of the party’s history. First among these he places ‘insistence on the primacy of the United Nations’ (after 1945). Then come ‘suspicion of power politics and secret diplomacy’; ‘anti-colonialism’; the idea that war should be a ‘last resort’ only; ‘morality’; and a ‘suspicion of US motives’. By 2003 most of those had gone […]
[…] US does not want to sell its cartoons to China! Another movie market the US is losing is Russia: ‘An action film glorifying the exploits of Russia’s secret police (!) is playing to packed cinemas…….. its success reflects disenchantment with Hollywood’s depiction of Russians as villains…’. Sunday Times 16 January 2005. The Vatican believes […]
[…] Michael Holzman, who is a writer living in the Hudson River valley of New York state; Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch, co-authors of global Intelligence: The World’s Secret Services today ( Zed Books, 2003). Robin Ramsay Lobster is edited and published by: Robin Ramsay at 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull, HU5 3JB. UK Tel: 01482 […]
[…] news letters are an active network: “Geheim works closely with…. Lobster‘. The truth is more prosaic. Lobster does exchange subscriptions with Intelligence Newsletter, Covert Action and Top Secret, and has plugged all of them in its columns over the years. I have been called once on the telephone by Olivier Schmidt in Paris and […]
Barry Davies Bloomsbury, 1994, £14.99 The Lufthansa jet hi-jack and associated events of October 1977, of which this book purports to provide a first-hand account, have always worn a fulsome, fearful beard. This book leaves those events far from clean-shaven. What would help clear away quite a lot of the hair would be access to … Read more
[…] Studies San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-8143 http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~remoore From Donovan Pedelty While fully acknowledging the pertinence to my theme of the ‘ secret state’ referred to by Raymond Challinor in his generous review of my book, The Rape of Socialism (Lobster 37) in defences of my street cred as […]
[…] reviewed books which explicitly condemn CIA nation-building involvement in the creation of Qaddafy’s state. Best, Kenn Thomas Steamshovel Press POB 23715 St. Louis, MO 63121 http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma Notes See The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith, Feral House, POB 3466, Portland OR 97208, $19.95. See Books, below.
Editorially Writing in mid-January… good news is the arrival of The Digger, apparently set fair to replace Private Eye as the major outlet – major above ground outlet – for British parapolitics. (Lobster, as one British academic said to me, is ‘underground’…). The new Kincora-Blunt trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of … Read more
[…] The Iron Triangle, under Carlucci it became ‘a towering presence in the world of wealth, power and politics…a company whose history includes ties to CIA cover-ups and secret arms deals, and an astounding trail of corporate cronyism’. After 9/11, it was to be ‘the beneficiary of the largest increase in defence spending in history’. […]
Footy and me I did two things with Paul Foot. Over two days, he, Colin Wallace and I copy-edited the manuscript of what became Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace? Foot was impressively objective about his own writing, accepting editing suggestions on their merits. During a lunch break he said to me: ‘What’s a bright guy … Read more
