Miscellany

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] the standard academic studies of domestic Italian post-war politics the ‘apertura’ merits merely a line or two. But with hindsight, and the recent events in Italy in mind, this is surely an area which will repay further study. This reminds me again of how important it is to re-read everything. I haven’t looked at […]

The Internet: a strategic assessment by the US Department of Defense

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] counter-intelligence purposes, but ‘if it became widely known that DoD was monitoring internet traffic for intelligence or counterintelligence purposes, individuals with personal agendas or political purposes in mind, or who enjoy playing pranks, would deliberately enter false or misleading messages’. Offensive uses of the internet: ‘Politically active groups using the internet could be vulnerable […]

Lobster Issue 49: Contents

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Pieces without an author’s name are by the editor Writers in this issue Jane Affleck is a regular contributor to Lobster. Garrick Alder is a journalist. Richard Alexander is a long-time Lobster reader and contributor. His website is <http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/blackchip/> Roger Cottrell is a novelist, script writer and PhD student. Tom Easton is a freelance writer. … Read more

Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] Factor, about the alleged international financial conspiracy, and The Mandela Myth. The latter was reprinted in Candour. Gibbs is the author of three books, Money Bomb, The Mind Benders and Lemming Folk, the last being a pale British imitation of John Birch-type American global conspiracy theorising. Linda Catoe Guell — Vice President of Western […]

Was the 1974 oil price hike engineered by the Bilderberg group

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] he had a copy of the minutes of that meeting, that they were 70 pages of them, and that he would, eventually, make me a copy. Never mind the 70 pages, I replied, what was on the agenda that year? And is there anything to stand up the claim that the oil price hike […]

My encounter with George K. Young and Tory Action, 1979-1988

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] a liberal and believed that liberalism – belief in freedom, rights, democracy, equality of women – was essentially a European idea, linked to a ‘European structure of mind’ and protected by a homogeneous community which was threatened by immigration. GKY’s aims But who was he trying to impress? The ‘correspondents’ themselves, the party leaders […]

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posner’s ‘Oswald did it after all!’ apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russell’s book still hasn’t […]

The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] Before long, Bernays was helping Israel to lobby the US military and recasting India as a worthy recipient of $1bn-worth of aid. He became the propaganda master mind in overthrowing Guatemala’s elected government on behalf of the United Fruit Company (who were worried that the country’s socialist regime would harm profits). Mind you, Bernays […]

The Road to 9/11

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America Peter Dale Scott London and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, prices in the UK from £16.95   The first third of this book, 120 pages or so, is part parapolitical and part deep history of America from Nixon to Ronald Reagan’s first election … Read more

Behind right-wing conspiracy theories

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] organisations. Their members included aristocrats and prominent people in many countries. Their popularity reflected the ideas of the Enlightenment when the hold of Christianity on the European mind was weakening and being replaced with occultism and a fascination with antiquity. Educated men believed in a vague human brotherhood and tolerance, to be brought about […]

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