[…] threats after 9/11’. Or take Stephen Holmes, a regular contributor to The London Review of Books and research director at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law, who wrote: ‘….we can safely say that the following jumble of motives, seizing different actors at different times, contributed to the […]
[…] load 42 Leyland buses for Havana, mostly as deck cargo, before sailing back down the Thames estuary that night. On the same day, the captain of the new 10,032 ton Japanese freighter Yamashiro Maru received orders to sail for London, empty in ballast, from the River Schelde in Belgium. The two ships were bound […]
[…] (Times 14th May 1984). But as one of the hostages later said “Unita had been in the town for some time spying out the land. They k new we were all here.” (Times 16th April 1984) Perimeter security at the mine was carried out following consultations with the shadowy British group, Defence Systems International. […]
[…] 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 […]
Larry Tye New York: Owl Books, 2002, pb $16.00 ISBN 0 8050 6789 2 If Edward Bernays hadn’t existed, Edward Bernays would have invented him. And in fact this is more or less what happened. This is the long-awaited paperback edition of the first full-length biography of Bernays, who, like President Harry Truman, […]
[…] status and wealth. Mostly using interviews with the participants of the time, Cahn’s book describes, in clear, straightforward prose, how groups fronting those two lobbies created a new Soviet ‘threat’ in 1976/7. Spending on the military-industrial-intelligence complex is affected by the definition of the ‘threat’ facing America: low threat, lower spending; high threat, higher […]
[…] one of those named in the anonymous 1972 pamphlet The Monday Club – A Danger to Democracy. To judge by the statement of the aims of the new Campaign for Conservative Victory, with its emphasis on ‘coloured immigration’, Mr Swerling’s views have not changed much since the early 1970s. Mr Swerling took out a […]
[…] it appears, “getting out in time” means anything up to 15 months later! (This really is vaguely insulting to one’s intelligence.) Jilian Becker, now part of the new London-based terrorism institute (see elsewhere in this issue), writes of captured PLO documents showing: “that the Soviet Union, through the PLO, actively sought groups of malcontents […]
[…] symptoms including disruption of their menstrual cycles, panic, swollen tongues, bleeding gums, headaches, vertigo, burns (even at night) etc etc. These effects coincided with the appearance of new aerials on the base buildings. The women concluded that they were being ‘zapped’ with some kind of rays, the story made the British press briefly, then […]
[…] repeated use of the Star of David in Masonic regalia without any explanation of its meaning. Nevertheless, for those who find the history of Freemasonry interesting, this new publication is recommended for its comprehensive and authoritative treatment. It is a useful reference work which, if augmented by readings of some of the works referred […]
