Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
Authority and order are back on the European political agenda. I want to put forward an hypothesis that readers can test against the facts. If I am right, then it opens up a new field of enquiry for parapolitical investigators. Let me state the thesis briefly: the need to create an international infrastructure of authority … Read more
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] or influence: Argentina, Bolivia, Congo, Egypt, France, Greece, Haiti, Italy, Jordan…. Denying and obscuring the CIA’s role in various assassinations, coups, and interventions helps create in the mind of Americans a certain view of the history of the past fifty years, of the role of the American government and, in particular, of the role […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] OX4 1BG. UK 44 (0) 1865 203661 http://www.undercurrents.org Project Freedom Network is the name of the first group in this country campaigning against what it calls ‘remote mind control weapons’. I don’t know anything about this group, its personnel or its leader, George Farquhar, other than this: according to a letter from Mr Farquhar, […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
Pieces without an author’s name are by the editor Parish Notices Thanks to: Tim Pendry, Chris Tame, Jane Affleck, Richard Alexander, Tom Easton and Robert Henderson. Among the Contributors to this Issue Michael Carlson has written books on the film directors Oliver Stone, Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood in the Pocket Essentials series. He has … Read more
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
Portland Free Press Portland Free Press, edited by Ace R. Hayes, with the legend ‘Tell the Truth and Run’ on its masthead, contains to produce important parapolitical material. The January/February issue had an extract from the 1991 deposition of Richard Brenneke, a pilot who claims to have flown missions for the Contras (which has not […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] a Philip Agee of the 1990s; and I for one am still unclear as to why he blew the whistle in the way he did. But never mind: thanks to Shayler’s information we have an insider account of MI5’s recent activities. The authors have compiled a quick sketch of MI5’s history up to the […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] sort of stability to Anbar – but we are sure it is not quite what the mild-mannered liberal and evangelical advocates of peace and reconciliation had in mind when they surged around the government for pet project funding. The illusion of Northern Ireland is that constant dialogue and alternatively talking tough and offering concessions […]