The Rhodes-Milner Group

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] Caesar-men, announcing the arrival of the Imperial Age: Before them the money collapses. The Imperial Age, in every culture alike, signifies the end of the politics of mind and money. The powers of the blood, unbroken bodily forces, resume their ancient lordship. “Race” springs forth, pure and irresistible – the strongest win and the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] here on 6 November – and the Democrats will do what they did last time: nothing. Which means the Republicans can steal the next one. Change of mind? Colin Challen MP reports that the index of Bill Clinton’s autobiography lists ‘Bilderberg conference’ at p. 376, where it does not appear; nor on adjoining pages; […]

Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the mid 1990s, going to 66 countries. Given that we know of a great deal of research by the US military into means of influencing the human mind using electronics, microwaves and ultrasound, for example, it thus possible in my view that the experience of being abducted reported by thousands of Americans (and others […]

The rise of warfare capitalism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] were former members of the Communist Party or members of the Demos think tank. Names like Peter Mandelson, Stuart Hall, Martin Kettle and Martin Jacques spring to mind immediately What particularly interests me about Marshall’s book is its dissection of Christopher and Peter Hitchins’s politics and what it says about the absorption of former […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] appeared this year on the CBS News website(2) and in The Times.(3) Has the Bilderberg meeting stopped asking for media silence? That would be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a […]

Splinter Factor update

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

When I commented on the lack of supporting material for the Operation Splinter Factor thesis (in issue 22), I somehow managed to omit the account of it in William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed, London 1986) pp. 59-61. But that is taken entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To the latter’s … Read more

After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] describe terrorist conduct, including the beheading of hostages, is ‘Armed Propaganda’ (AP). This could backfire and seems vaery like a typically dated, crude attempt at ineffective Anglo-US mind control: ‘the Allies’ are equally adept at AP, albeit of a different type. ‘This Week’, BBC TV, 23 September 2004. 15 Financial Terrorists: An example could […]

Robert Kennedy and the Middle East connection

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] William Joseph Bryan, by an Onassis middleman.( ) Bryan, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Las Vegas, is a likely candidate for the role Sirhan’s mind control Svengali.() Hamshari, targeted by Mossad in December 1972 and later killed on orders from PLO intelligence chief, Abu Iyad, for misappropriating PLO funds – notably […]

Our American problem

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] this derives from a traditional (and healthy) American disdain for those who put on airs. A word for them in current mid-westese is ‘latte-drinkers’. (‘Frasier’ comes to mind.) But it has gone beyond that now. Kansans despise all urban east- and west-coasters; liberals; intellectuals; vegetarians (Kansas grows a lot of meat); Volvo drivers; effete […]

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