Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
Kevin McClure John Brown Publishing, London, 1996, £9.99 Subtitled ‘Doomsday Cults, Hopeless Predictions, Visions and Warning Signs How the World Will End’, McClure gives us a guided tour through some of the wackier people out there on the religious and political fringes, currently and historically, written in his beguilingly simple style. This is not […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] wrong. For Bernie Hawthorn read Bernie Houghton; for Guy Parker read Guy Pauker; for J. Lansdowne read Jay Lovestone; for Roy Gudson read Roy Godson; for Erwin Brown read Irving Brown; for Tom Braydon read Tom Braden; for Allan Wilks read Owen Wilkes. The first of these transcripts is at http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz1.htm The McGuffin Very […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] specialist Robert Fisk, continues to pose challenges to Blair on foreign policy while remaining generally supportive of New Labour on the home front. Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai- Brown, under the headline ‘Watch out for these sinister ideologues’ (October 27, 2003), fiercely attacked British neo-conservatives, echoing Curtis’s charge of duplicity being at the heart of […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] to become Mrs Hasnat Khan and live in suburbia as his wife’. A child was also part of her plan and she was convinced that ‘her “ brown baby” would help improve relations between Muslims and Christians.’ Diana was apparently so besotted with Khan that she considered getting herself pregnant with his child in […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] Polly Toynbee – and another, Mary Stott, was elected to the party’s National Committee. Peter Jenkins, its senior political columnist (and husband of Polly Toynbee), and Derek Brown, its media correspondent, were known to be supporters. No newspaper had as high a proportion of Alliance supporters among its readers, and many SDP activists regard […]