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Lobster review: Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001

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A review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001

[PDF file]: […] and dirty tricks. Eighteen years of survival and thrival in this highly contentious area is no mean achievement. From the start we have historical articles about the JFK assassination, 1970’s Wilsoniana, plots and rumours about early 1970’s private right wing armies like ‘Unison’, ‘Civil Assistance’, ‘GB75′ – whether real, psy-ops or authoritarian old soldiers’ […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

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[PDF file]: […] the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the KGB archives, working with former KGB colonel Oleg Tsarev to deliver in 1991 Ten […]

Lobster review: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

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A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

[PDF file]: […] and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever more bizarre conspiracy theories. There are no stories like “aliens […]

Lobster review: Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

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A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

[PDF file]: […] Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, Robin Ramsay’s Lobster casts its net wider to encompass histories of fascism, the JFK assassination, the Lockerbie bombing and the military’s medical experiments on service personnel. What both Lobsters excel at are finding the links between apparently unrelated events, or […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

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[PDF file]: […] support of the traditional political establishment in both the UK and US has been badly rattled in the last year, the words of Edmund Burke, echoed by JFK, remain prescient: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’. Simon Matthews is the author of Psychedelic Celluloid: […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] CIA attempts to destabilise New Zealand, through the exploration of the influence of the security and intelligence services on British politics; the role of conspiracy theories; CIA, JFK; the failure of Labour and the rise of NuLab; and out into some of the more arcane areas, notably UFOs and mind control. All the good […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

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[PDF file]: The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963) Garrick Alder Above: the masthead of The Cuban Report, as it appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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[…] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]

View from Bridge copy

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

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[PDF file]: […] which he said clearly that there is no way to answer the question ‘Who started it?’ In a way this is just as irrelevant as ‘Who killed JFK?’ However, what makes Cumings’ book remarkable is that he not only does not reject out of hand the idea that tight coincidence within a penumbra of […]