Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Contributions comments are always welcome. E-mail me on 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Electronic Privacy and Encryption Privacy and Human Rights http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/ New GILC/EPIC/PI report details the state of privacy in 50 countries. Includes Threats to Privacy; The Right to Privacy; Technologies of Privacy Invasion. The report was written by Privacy International; […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] unions – in the United States. At the time Chinese nationalists and the South Vietnamese establishment were producing much of America’s heroin. The other main heroin producer, Iran, was also an American ally. In later years Cuba and then Nicaragua were both described as prime movers in the Caribbean cocaine trade when it is […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
This piece by Daniel Brandt began as a short letter commenting on my review of Right Woos Left by Chip Berlet (Lobster 23 p. 34). I wrote back and asked if he would like to expand it. And so he did, writing almost the whole thing at one long sitting. Anyone who joined the U.S. […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] seem to have punctured the efforts of Netanyahu to use the ‘war on terror’ mindset and network that took us into Iraq into launching a war upon Iran. But if he succeeds in that effort, we will see whether the Community Security Trust and the Board of Deputies of British Jews again report a […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Gary Webb Seven Stories Press, USA, $24.95 This appeared in San Francisco Chronicle on June 28, 1998. The Chronicle edited out a section… This has been restored and is in italics. What the Chronicle found too sensitive to publish is rather interesting – editor. Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] a laptop and a scotch. In a quick overview of the relations between the US and other ex-enemies, (now comrades-in-arms), we get a glance at Yemen, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan. If there’s a criticism of this book it is too broad and too thin, constantly throwing up nuggets of detail that cry […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
Chip Berlet This 63-page essay describes a wide range of contacts between what in a British context would be described as right-wing conspiracy theorists and the left. Berlet documents a range of contacts between the far-right Liberty Lobby, followers of LaRouche, Bo Gritz and the Populist Party, the Christic Institute, Radio Free America and a […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Web update Jane Affleck Thanks to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Comments and details of interesting websites are welcome: my email address is 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Freedom Of Information Campaign for Freedom of Information http://www.cfoi.org.uk ‘The Campaign for Freedom of Information campaigns against unnecessary secrecy and for greater public access to official and other […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] operations of this period’. If asked about CIA covert operations in this period I would have difficulty producing much information about anything before the 1953 coup in Iran. Some bits on Italy, some on Germany, the Congress for Cultural Freedom… Pisani’s thesis is correcting a fault only she perceives. Pisani shows how a smallish […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Obituaries Ace Hayes (1940-1998) by Daniel Brandt Ace R. Hayes, 58, an activist and political researcher who was well-known in the Portland, Oregon area, died on February 13, 1998 from an aneurism in the brain. Corruption and conspiracy in high places is the name of the game, but Ace was on the case. His broad […]
