The politics of the organic movement – an overview

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Bush, 2008, under the pseudonym Ernest Organic. It perhaps has a psychological parallel in the work of Jung, where the potentially threatening dark confusion of the unconscious mind can, if faced and accepted, rather than being repressed, become a source of strength and energy, just as the apparently dead matter in the soil becomes, […]

Extracts from the Testimony of Harlan Girard

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

Extracts from the Testimony of Harlan Girard Managing Director, International Committee for the Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons, before the Human Subjects Subcommittee, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Washington DC, 19 October 1997. In 1982 an obscure government office called the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future published a study called ‘Future Agenda’. The obscure chairman of […]

Updates

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] ‘Your father was always worried about Korea.’ (1) Further, according to Eric, while he and everyone else were fixated for years on his father’s role in ‘ mind control’ experiments, Frank Olsen’s speciality was actually the aerosol delivery of anthrax. This only emerged in late 2002 in the wake of the anthrax scare in […]

Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] right all along!’ Natch. Seductive if you’ve never read anything else on the assassination, and disingenuous if you have. Mark Lane is working on a book-length critique. Mind Closed/Case Opened. Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK Richard Case Nagell Is –). New […]

Historical Notes: Blair and Gladstone

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] which safeguarded the route to India. It was at this point that Britain’s Liberal government decided on intervention. It hoped for French support, which would, in Gladstone’s mind at least have helped to preserve some element of international respectability about the enterprise – but none was forthcoming. So a unilateral British invasion occurred. Arabi’s […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] of Towers’ friends, one of whom tried to have sex with her in Paris. Towers, over the next year, made no sexual advances towards Maria but didn’t mind pushing his friends on her. She signed to Towers’ modelling agency and he gave her a large deposit. The day she left for New York Stephen […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Still very much in the land of the living is an old political associate of both departed peers, Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. A teasing thought crossed my mind during the phoney leadership war in the days before the Labour Party conference when Toynbee switched her allegiance to David Miliband from Gordon Brown. (We are […]

Stalin’s granny, Christopher Andrew and the Cold War

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] for journalists, they have, with a few honourable exceptions, been shown to be crass, hysterical morons, historical and political illiterates unable to see beyond the simplistic bipolar mind set of a conflict that ended a decade ago. Working themselves into a foam-flecked apoplexy, they have charged like a lynch-mob after a silly old Tankie, […]

SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] of it and did not realise the shallowness of the exercise of which he was principal architect. I say ‘shallowness’ because commerce, when it has branding in mind, looks outwards and downwards; whereas David Spedding made the fatal error of only looking outwards. It is easy, but no less unforgiveable, to see how this […]

Persian Drugs: Oliver North, the DEA and Covert Operations in the Mideast

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast […]

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