The TWA Flight 800 crash: was it missiles

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.’ – Winston Churchill On July 17, 1996, 230 people boarded TWA Flight 800 at Kennedy airport, New York. About twelve minutes after take-off, 8.31 pm, the plane exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island. There were no survivors. Immediately afterwards many […]

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Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] of the NF towards the end of 1977 was the continued presentation of themselves as a ‘respectable’ organisation. Thus on 24 September 1977 an NF delegation to New Scotland Yard, including Tyndall, Martin Webster, Andrew Fountaine and Andrew Brons, met a police contingent led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Helm to discuss alleged attacks on […]

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The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] Anti-Internment League, Troops Out Movement, British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Group, Irish Political Hostages Release Committee and the Campaign for Social Justice are all listed as “Labour’s New Left in Northern Ireland” – an interesting if wholly misleading and barely intelligible description. Named in this context as “key personalities” are Paul Rose (who gets […]

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Notes from the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92. Part 2

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] was asked about membership of paramilitary organisations, he would give a knowing wink — just the sort of behaviour that might be expected from a 18 year-old new to London. Although the state has not been averse to arresting and imprisoning the odd UVF member, according to Brady he has not ever been questioned […]

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An Unbiased Watch? the police and fascist/anti-fascist street conflict in Britain, 1945-1951

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] the former leader of the BUF, gave Hamm his blessing. One of Mosley’s lieutenants, Alexander Raven Thomson, organised a parallel network of book clubs, to recruit a new layer of respectable fascists. Finally, in November 1947, Mosley held a large meeting, attended by Hamm, the book clubs, and about 50 organisations all told, to […]

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New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

All four of Tony Blair’s new political appointees at the Ministry of Defence are part of Labour’s Atlanticist network. Three of them, George Robertson, Lord John Gilbert and John Speller, are members of two interrelated bodies, the Atlantic Council and its labour movement wing, the Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding (TUCETU). […]

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Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] of the academic mode of analysis, so net tools like Wikipedia, a constantly revisable draft of ‘reality’, scrutinised by knowledgeable and disciplined peer groups, could be the new model for describing and evaluating the world of executive unaccountability as it slips through the net between paper-based evidence and the gossip of ‘unconfirmed sources’. () […]

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Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] interviewed (Retired) U.S. Army Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept. (1) The concept of non-lethal weapons is not new. Non-lethal weapons have been used by the intelligence, police and defence establishments in the past. (2) Several western governments have used a variety of non-lethal weapons […]

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More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] Ray White is the managing director of Veritas Publishing, Australia’s leading publisher/distributor of racist and anti-Semitic literature.(10) Eustace Mullins I’ve just come across in the pages of New Age Monitor (11). Mullins, it is reported, is one of the leaders of the Christian Identity Movement (whatever that is: information would be welcome), and author […]

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‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] the others. Such behind-the-scene operations are present on every level, from the mundane efforts of small-scale retailers to gain competitive advantage by being the first to develop new product lines to the crucially important attempts by rival secret services to penetrate and manipulate each other. Sometimes the patterns of these covert rivalries and struggles […]

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