Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] into thinking that they were taking tranquilizers: bottles containing potassium cyanide, but labelled ‘Valium’, were scattered on the ground around the pavilion. Based upon this evidence, a conservative estimate would be that at least 700, and quite possibly more, of Jonestown’s victims were murdered. No other conclusion seems reasonable. Once Dr. Mootoo’s findings are […]

Election-rigging in the UK

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] Lodge had apparently given permission for votes to be cast on their behalf. (2) Their votes had gone in pairs to relatives or friends of a local Conservative party worker; for the law states that a person cannot have more than two proxy votes assigned to them. Bunyan Lodge is in the De Parys […]

Price of Power

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] a mystery. Even so, even in the triangle Challen identifies as being at the heart of the British political system, the City, the secret state and the Conservative Party, there is quite a lot of information available Inevitably, the chapters on the pre-Thatcher years are thinner than those since she came to power. One […]

Managing the World Economy

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] the British and European economies since the seventies. And that monetarism itself is the enemy of enterprise, a financial orthodoxy which is the natural correlate of a conservative social and political orthodoxy. With its emphasis on tight money, high interest and exchange rates, conditions which slow down productive enterprise, and make it easier to […]

The Intelligence Files: Today’s secrets, tomorrow’s scandals

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

Olivier Schmidt Atlanta (USA): Clarity Press, 2005, $14.95, p/b www.bookmasters.com/clarity/currenttitles.htm   Here’s a new name to me, the publisher Clarity; and a familiar one, Olivier Schmidt. In the 1980s Schmidt was producing a very good newsletter in Paris, Intelligence and Parapolitics. This got expensive, professionalised and eventually went on-line for subscribers as Intelligence.(1) This is … Read more

Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] April Owen Oyston filed a writ for libel against the BBC and its reporter Andrew Jennings. 28 April Preston Tory councillor Audrey Scott introduced Michael Murrin to Conservative MP Robert Atkins at her home in Preston. 30 April After insuring his life for £100,000, Murrin announced his Ratepayers Association would send information to Lancashire […]

The British American Project for the Successor Generation

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] when, in the early Eighties, both the Labour and Liberal parties opposed the major arms spending increases – nuclear and non-nuclear – central to Reagan and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. In the BAP version of its foundation it would appear that the institution of regular meetings of ’24 Americans and 24 Britons […]

A (very) brief history of Christian politics in the United States

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] intellectual respectability and exposure for pro-corporate ideas. Liberal critics of religion sometimes fail to register the common interests that bind secular advocates of corporate power and socially conservative evangelicals. Their differences make for good cultural drama and offer some of the excitement of controversy and debate, but their apparent differences – enlightened secular libertarianism […]

Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] 37, 1982, an article called ‘Victory for Strauss’. The Langemann papers 8th November 1979 Protected source contributions to state security. Personal for the state minister only”The militant conservative London publicist, Brian Crozier, Director of the famous Institute for the Study of Conflict up to September 1979, has been working with his diverse circle of […]

Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] a number of consultation papers and statements covering encryption and electronic commerce in recent years, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) taking the lead role.(9) Both Conservative and Labour governments, in their 1997 and 1998 papers, proposed some form of key escrow system, in which a user’s private encryption key is held by […]

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