Phoenix: Policing the Shadows, and, Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] of the 1980s. The failure of British governments to successfully erode that base of support made some accommodation inevitable. Kennedy-Pipe does not pay enough attention to these kind of issues. Her book is a useful but not a particularly outstanding contribution to the literature. Notes This was written before the recent general election. Book cover

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Stakeknife, and, Mad Dog

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] accountable in any real way to the politicians; and, for reasons still unclear to me, this is a situation with which most of our politicians are content. Notes 1 For a secret operation, a huge amount about the FRU has been leaked and published in the last few years, despite the best efforts of […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] sometimes not. Even the Bilderbergers have a pecking order. Britain’s Peter Mandelson arrived in a bus (emphasis added). (1) What a coincidence! The day before the government’s new Bill to increase its anti-terrorism powers came into force the Sunday Telegraph (18 February) carried a story headed, ‘Police foil terror plot to use sarin gas […]

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Eclipse: the last days of the CIA

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 […]

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Transnational Classes and International Relations

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] of capital, regulation theory, etc.) – each of which is a very scarce accomplishment, but any brain that can do both together is almost unheard of. This new book is slightly more readable and more sparing in the empirical detail, but every bit as theoretical. It poses the question: how can van der Pijl […]

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Obituaries

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] ‘the dirty war’. Privately published by him in Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland to circumvent censorship, it was subsequently republished in an expanded edition. Under the new title, The British Intelligence Services in Action, it has become a modern classic, is virtually impossible to now locate, and still compares well with subsequent volumes […]

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Obituaries

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] Urban (obits Guardian 20 October 1997,Times 8 October 1997) Hungarian exile, anti-communist writer and intellectual, Urban worked for the entire range of CIA-funded organisations in the cold war period. Notes Daniel Brandt can be contacted at Public Information Research, Inc., PO Box 680635, San Antonio TX 78268 Tel:210-509-3160 Fax:210-509-3161 Nonprofit publisher of NameBase. http://www.pir.org/

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Trick or Treason: the October Surprise Mystery

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 […]

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Wallace Clippings planted on Chapman Pincher

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting campaign in the U.S. backed by pro-I.R.A. organisations in New York. There is no shortage of ex-Vietnam veterans – many of them Catholics of Irish origin – prepared to hire out their services. And the U.S. […]

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Gordon Brown

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is little which is new in this tale of egos, rows, sulking, press character assassination, shunning, and internecine struggle between two gangs, Brown’s and Blair’s, it useful to be reminded of […]

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