The View from the Bridge

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 […]

The meaning of the QinetiQ scandal

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] and the installation of Jennifer Moses, former managing director of Goldman Sachs, as a special adviser at 10 Downing Street.(1) She has been brought in to advise Brown on welfare reform! If the Thatcher government had appointed someone like her to such a position, Labour MPs would have been outraged. Today, barely a murmur. […]

The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] For more on John Paul II’s policies, see Paul Johnson, Zizola and the highly controversial (and apparently falsified) work by Gronowicz. For his activities in Poland, see Brown (ed) and Hanson pp.197-233. Herman and Brodhead pp. 241-4. Like its ‘Bulgarian connection’ counterpart, it consists mainly of suppositions, hypothesised linkages and circumstantial evidence. This notion […]

What is Opus Dei?

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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 […]

First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] GCHQ BLUNSON, TERRENCE IRD 50-60’S REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE MIDDLE EAST -80’S REUTERS BROOKE-BOOTH, COL. S.P. MI5 (‘ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT’, NICHOLAS KELSO 1988) 1939-45 COMMUNIST SECTION UNDER HOLLIS BROWN, ALLAN IRD 39-45 BALKANS 50’s JOURNALIST EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS -61 WORKING FOR THE NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY, GOA 60’s FORUM WORLD FEATURES 80’s SECURITY […]

The Fortean Times Book of the Millennium

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 […]

Sources

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 […]

Perfidious Albion: an end to deceit

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 […]

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

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 […]

Fantasy Island

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] we have are politicians who are driven by NuLab’s major policy imperatives: pleasing the City and following what focus groups tell them. I do not believe that Brown, Balls et al are unaware of the consequences of what E and A call the borrowing binge we have been going through in this country in […]

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