Lonrho

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] are offences in which the essence is improper concealment of information from share holders of a public company for the purpose of private enrichment. I have in mind the following possible charges: an offence against Section 84 of the Larceny Act 1861 in relation to the recommendation to shareholders in 1966 relating to new […]

Popular Alienation

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] for example contains this sequence of articles: a piece about Gerald Posner’s Case Closed; a piece called ‘Secret Service Masers Kill and Make Whores’ about implants and mind control programmes of the US government, which ought to be a spoof but probably isn’t; an interview with a man called Lars Hansson which covers the […]

The Thimble Riggers: The Dublin Arms Trials of 1970

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

James Kelly Published by the author at 30 Curzon St., Dublin 8 ISBN 0 9535992 0 5, £11.95, p/b This is the second version of this story by James Kelly. The first, Orders for the Captain, was reviewed in Lobster 15. Kelly was a senior officer in the Irish intelligence service who became involved in … Read more

Clinton and Quigley: a strange tale from the U.S. elite

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy nonetheless. But apart from them, the only people who seem to have taken Quigley on board have been Shoup and Minter […]

The Anglo-American Establishment From Rhodes To Cliveden

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Lobster Issue 1 (1983)

[…] a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy none the less. But apart from them, the only people who seem to have taken Quigley on board have been Shoup […]

UDA: Inside the heart of Loyalist terror

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack London: Penguin, 2004, £12.99, p/b   Henry McDonald’s highly readable recent book with Jim Cusack on the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is everything that other recent offerings on the subject were not. On the one hand, it avoids the kind of borderline homo-erotic sensationalism, in which the atrocities of self-serving … Read more

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] do we know the caller was referring to the assassination? We don’t. It is difficult, however, not to conclude it was the assassination the caller had in mind, particularly when one considers the timing of the call – twenty-five minutes before the shooting. Could there have been another event on that day intended? I […]

The Case Against Israel, and, The Power of Israel

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

The Case Against Israel Michael Neumann Oakland (US): CounterPunch, $15 Edinburgh (UK): AK Press, £10, 2005 The Power of Israel in the United States James Petras Atlanta and Black Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95   In a year in which Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of … Read more

Enemies of the state

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] to discredit an individual. Millions of pounds are being spent trying to ruin the reputations of individuals in the UK. The obvious other examples which spring to mind are: Colin Wallace — framed on a manslaughter charge then the victim of a disinformation campaign by state sources. Dr. Hugh Thomas — on whom the […]

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