Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] In the IPS case, which takes up more than half the book, the Crozier case was unproven, and in my view unlikely. IPS really did irritate the new cold warriors who gathered round the broken down old movie actor in Washington. There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, the Joe McCarthys and Nixons and Hoovers, were saying in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
The Syndicate: The story of the coming World Government Nicholas Hagger New Alresford (Hampshire), John Hunt Publishing, 2004, pb, £11.99 Another massive reworking of the basic elements of the post-WW2 American-oriented global conspiracy theory: Rothschild, Quigley, Fabians, CFR, Bilderberg, Masons etc. Hagger makes much of Bilderberg (perhaps simply because there is so much […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] ECHELON uses a number of national dictionaries containing key words of interest to each country. For more than a decade, former agents of US, British, Canadian and New Zealand national security agencies have claimed that the monitoring of electronic communications has become endemic throughout the world. Rumours have circulated that new technologies have been […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] Sample and Collum tell us in The Men on the Sixth Floor that an oil man they met in Houston told them that half of Texas k new that LBJ had Kennedy killed. Is this plausible? I have no way of knowing. We know so little about Texas politics and organised crime in the […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] of inflation; but he does provide plenty of empirical evidence that neo-liberalism isn’t working. It is still argued by neo-liberals that in adopting Keynesian policies with the New Deal, Roosevelt deepened and prolonged the Depression. This piece of flim-flam is advanced more to promote the neo-liberal belief that the US fell from an economic […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
Donald Gibson Sheridan Square Press, Inc., New York 1994 What was JFK’s economic policy? If you can give any kind of detailed answer, you are a better man than me, Gunga Din. Kennedy’s economic policy is an area of his administration which is rarely discussed in parapolitics. (Who cares about taxation policy when you’ve […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] went through a bad shock with Watergate. But even then, all they were asked to believe was that their president had been a bad person. In this new situation they are asked much more; they are asked to believe that their country has been evil. And nobody wants to believe that.’ The word for […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] IG’s memo on CB research at Fort Detrick: www.cryptome.org/mkultra-0004.htm Influencing human behaviour: www.cryptome.org/ mkultra-0001.htm Covert research facility for biological and chemical warfare: www.cryptome.org/mkultra-0005.htm Mind control forum The new site of mind control forum, Robert Naeslund and hundreds of other cases, is http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/ Peter Dale Scott Scott’s recent writing – and there is a lot […]
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