Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
Mark Perry William Morrow and Co, New York, 1992 I’m not even sure if this has actually been published in the U.K.: I’d never heard of it until this copy turned up in my local library with a UK price stuck over the dollar price, suggesting a few were imported. This should have been […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] production of munitions. It even referred to ‘Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would in Scott’s view, have refused licenses or the export of machine tools if it had known about the contents of […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Forte, was an obnoxious Russian racist. There is much incidental detail on SIS methods in London in the 1970s and 80s, a good deal of which is new, I think, though Souza is careful not to name any SIS personnel not already identified. At the centre of the story the urbane civilised SIS people […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
Robert Parry Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1993 ISBN 1-879823-08-X This is an account both of the October Surprise story and of the author’s attempts over two years to stand it up. This works at several levels. The first is an intelligible recounting of the main features of the developing October Surprise allegations. He […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] ‘source within the Crown Prosecution Service’. Now this is impressive: London free-lance goes to Nottingham and finds a source within the CPS willing to break the law for him? (I wrote to the Nottingham CPS about this and have not yet had a satisfactory reply.) Irving reports how he had filed a Freedom of […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] that existing material has been digested, this isn’t just that synthesis; this is a giant step forward. In almost every chapter there are major revelations among the new information. To take just two examples: the chapter on IRD’s role in the removal of Sukarno of Indonesia will entail a complete revision of extant accounts […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] to fashion the external world …….each of us is living in a society that has a vested interest in our alienation from reality and the indoctrination of new recruits into the collective fantasy of Western benevolence .’ This struck me as novel and interesting. Laing claimed to have revealed the dynamics of the family […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] arrived to late for inclusion in this issue but will be reviewed in Lobster 39. Further information can be had on the publisher’s Website at www.autonomedia.org The latest book from John Newsinger, author of the piece about Orwell and IRD in this issue, is a study of recent British comics: The Dredd Phenomenon: comics […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Chronicle as saying: ‘I have been with him since he became leader and I will be at his side until the end.’ The strong Israel network in New Labour is likely to continue beyond the retirement of Blair and Levy. Gordon Brown has often spoken to his attachment to the Israel cause and regularly […]