Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] different approach. All reasonable people would hope so. The results of the last Israeli general election, though, do not indicate that it is a country considering a new approach to the many problems it faces. In the last resort Israel has been so heavily armed over the last 50 years by the US and […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Duff pages 237 and 240. The latter section begins: ‘A number of young people from peace movements and CNDs met that summer in a Quaker camp in New York in the United States called Camp Sunnybrook…..’ Picture on the left shows Tim Hepple in the left-hand corner, with the shades and is from the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] ordinariness, therefore, from 1979 onwards HM’s subjects have been consoled with the iron sacraments of neo-liberalism, Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands War, fake Americanisation, and then more recently New Labour’s successor to British Socialism, the Third Way – and a subsequent “resignation” of half the electorate. All this and the Dome as well. ‘ (p. […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Fox, the author of the first critical study of the Warren Commission’s findings put out by a mainstream publisher, The Unanswered Questions about President Kennedy’s Assassination ( New York: Award Books, 1965). Actually, it was preceded by Thomas G. Buchanan’s Who Killed Kennedy? (London: Secker & Warburg, 1964) which was published before the Warren […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] around the world and living in the knowledge that there are people much worse off than me.’ Release from prison is often only the start of a new set of problems. There is no organised system of professional help for those released on appeal, despite the often serious social and psychiatric problems experienced by […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] creating ‘a burning sensation similar to a hot light bulb pressed against one’s flesh’. A Marine colonel said the device is intended to ‘influence motivational behaviour’. The New York Times report of this on 2 March described this as a crowd-dispersal weapon and Colonel George Fenton of the Marine Corps, Director of the Department […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
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 […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] how this post-war generation passed on its passions, beliefs and networks to the Reagan generation’. (page 4) In fact Russ Bellant did in his Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party: domestic fascist networks and their effect on US cold war politics, a Political Research Associates book (3rd edition published by South […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] 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 […]
