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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 […]

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] and Technology http://www7.nationalacademies.org/nsb/NSB_Reports.html Report from National Academy of Science’s National Research Council, 4 November 2002. Recommends highest priority be placed in 4 areas: developing calmatives (sleep-inducing and mind altering) and malodorants to control crowds; more advanced directed-energy systems for stopping vehicles or vessels; marine barrier systems to stop attack vessels and protect perimeters; and […]

Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair

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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 […]

Jim Callaghan: the life and times of Solomon Binding

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

It is still possible to find an interesting Penguin Special that appeared in 1958. British Economic Policy Since the War, by Andrew Shonfield, then Economics Editor of The Observer, remains a striking piece of work. Among his conclusions were: that the maintenance of a separate Sterling Area, giving the comforting feeling and appearance of great … Read more

No smoke without fire?

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt Richard Webster Oxford: The Orwell Press, 2005, £25   This is an account of the various child abuse and satanic abuse cases that developed across the UK from the mid ’80s onwards. At the phenomenon’s peak, around 1995, many police forces were carrying […]

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 […]

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] that someone’s lying, or they may simply have been produced by fallible human beings. You start out by doubting the official story, but you keep an open mind and apply the same sceptical standards to all the alternative versions. Debunking an error is an endless process, even if you believe you’ve seen a white […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] the siting of US missiles around Russia in his capacity as Poland’s Foreign Minister. Mention Poland in British politics and the name Denis McShane MP springs to mind. The son of a Polish émigré, McShane was, like Sikorski, deeply involved in Solidarity there before he rose to prominence in international relations, in his case […]

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 […]

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