Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] that ‘Captain Spencer’ was the non de plume of Commander Cumming On p.365 we are told that Reilly/Rosenblum was ‘….one of the early architects of the international drugs trade….’. This is advanced because one Arnold Rothstein – a significant New York gangster in the ’20s – organised shipments of poppy seeds (5) from Manchuria […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] ‘He’s rattling the Americans’ cage,’ he said. A month later – it’s goodbye Tom Spencer MEP when the Customs just happened to search his bag and find drugs and porno in it. See ‘Named but not shamed’ by John Sweeney, The Observer Review 14 February, the only report of Spencer’s demise which even hints […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
Introduction What follows is an interim report about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. In so far as it has a central thesis, it is that Jones initiated the Jonestown massacre because he feared that Congressman Leo Ryan’s investigation would disgrace him. Specifically, Jones feared that Ryan and the press would uncover evidence that the … Read more
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
Wishing and hoping I met Tony Benn only once, while researching Smear! He’s a lovely man with a big blind spot about the politics of the early 1980s in general and the Militant Tendency in particular. Here’s Benn in the course of an appreciation of Arthur Scargill on his standing down as President of … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] California; and a little petty crime. This is the ‘alternative society’ of the time – or a version of it – but Blum’s obsessions are politics not drugs or rock music. Somehow Blum got a nasty – on the evidence of this book – a terminal dose of the desire to look the reality […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] of his studies based on his participation in programmes carried out in 1950s.(23) He described biological and hypothetical possibilities regarding psi and also underlined the effects of drugs – consistent with the CIA’s mind control programs and findings of that era.(24) Puharich had a keen interest in parapsychology. In 1956, he brought Peter Horkus, […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] twenty years are spurious. Their account of the CIA is wilfully inadequate, even for a three page summary. They describe the funding of the Contras without mentioning drugs, even when the CIA itself has admitted getting permission from the US Attorney General to ignore cocaine dealing in return for donations to the Contras. You […]