[…] a dollar-laden future as a World Statesman, writing something has proved to be irresistible. In Lobster 33 and subsequent issues, Lobster’s writers gave a view of the New Labour thing as it began. We got much of it right; but what we didn’t foresee, and what now strikes me most powerfully, is what a […]
[…] Free Britain and the Moonies. And Reading Matters had received a grant from a Labour council. (Variations on a theme of ‘commie perverts on the rates’). The new ‘anarchist threat’ has its own (slight) intellectual support unit, the Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism. RFST’s trustees are Paul Wilkinson, Michael Ivens of Aims, […]
Brian Brivati Richard Cohen, London, £25 At the height of Labour’s early 1980s challenge to the siting of a new generation of nuclear weapons in Britain, a rising trade union official was invited to the west London home of a former US labour attaché. On the recommendation of a colleague who was active […]
Unmasking the State: A rough guide to real democracy This is Action Guide #3 from ‘a world to win’, a group that somehow manages to avoid saying anything much about itself in this booklet. A visit to their website shows that while they are committed to a radical change in society and apparently […]
[…] event of the post-war US empire. ‘The Octopus’ is a decent metaphor but on the evidence presented here – and the authors have had access to Casolaro’s notes and his manuscript – Casolaro’s evidence for this central control group was thin; and for the role of Angleton and the Albanian connection non-existent. To even […]
[…] action that resulted from this refusal is still working its way through the US legal system. Why the refusal? As Michael Phayer makes clear, in his fascinating new book, the Vatican bank still holds the Ustasa gold looted by the Croatian fascists during the Second World War.(1) Ante Pavelic’s Ustasa regime was responsible for […]
[…] were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documentsapparently from former Soviet archives seem to show that the Soviets k new in 1953 that the allegations were false and the ‘evidence’ had been fabricated. The allegations were the climax to a long series of charges, started before […]
[…] achieve.’ Why did it fail? Apart from the obvious point that few in the Middle East will believe American propaganda, a point which Collins cannot make, Collins notes: ‘The increase in the number of satellite television news services and internet connections makes it ever more difficult to influence opinions globally.’ It is hard to […]
[…] scripts. All your favourites are here: MKUltra and Delta; the CIA’s drug programmes; Ewan Cameron’s ‘psychic driving’ and reprogramming experiments in Canada – all reworked with some new material. For British readers there is new information on William Sargant, author of the 1957 landmark book, Battle for the Mind. Streatfield shows that Sargant was […]
[…] behind the Republican rhetoric of freedom and Jesus are crooks, gangsters, assassins and torturers as well as their corporate sponsors. Parry discusses: Watergate (he has a new answer to the question: Why were they bugging Spencer Oliver’s phone? This is discussed elsewhere in this issue.) The senior Bush’s role as Republican National Committee […]
