[…] 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 […]
[…] Brize Norton, Mildenhall, Lakenheath and Waddington. Unfortunately it seems to me that not a lot of this continuing massive investment will be of much practical value against our new ideological opponents. But that is not the point of this book. It is excellent, informative and a worthy initiator of the debate it seeks to promote.
[…] close attention. Well documented, with excellent notation and index, there can be no argument with its contents. As Kincoragate shows, the mainland UK knows little of the real conflict in Northern Ireland and the form in which that conflict takes place. Whilst blame lies with the British state, what of the complicity of journalists […]
[…] and the book is thus dotted with interesting fragments about the area where the state, the intelligence services and political activity overlap. There are little bits of new information or perspectives, for example, on Will Owen, the Labour MP who was ripping-off the Czechs and got done (but acquitted) for espionage; the attempting framing […]
[…] Programs. They’ve been used on women’s groups like the Greenham Common women and the Women’s Encampment for a Future Peace and Justice at Seneca Army Depot in New York. Because of my interest in the technology, I am contacted from time to time by people who believe they are being assaulted with microwave weapons […]
[…] who were informing MI5 in the 1980s about the Labour Party left. ‘People did take money in return for their help. Some of them have prospered within New Labour and now sit in the Lords ….. knows exactly how dozens of Labour Party members reported their comrades for possible treachery during those difficult years.’ […]
[…] of the EEC/EC/EU. In summary: a small group at the centre of the British state, fronted by a disparate group of politicians, few of whom had any real idea of what was at stake, have pushed British membership of the EEC/EC/EU regardless of the economic consequences; and have accomplished this by stealth and lying. […]
[…] is available in abundance and I see little point in simple collation. Plus the spooks don’t seem as important as they did. If someone offered me a new list of the British secret state, an update of the one I published in 1989, I’m not sure I would devote an entire issue of Lobster […]
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[…] here, as with all studies of elite groups, is that while it is possible to show that such groups have distinguished members, it is rarely possible to show that the fact of membership has had any particular impact. This gap is too often filled by conspiracy theorising, as it is in this collection. Notes 9
