Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft: book 1, The Nine

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] book. Not that it isn’t an interesting read: it is. But you would have to be seriously incompetent to make uninteresting a subject list which includes assassination, mind control, the occult, extraterrestrials, channelling etc. My problems are with the author’s belief in the Jungian notion of synchronicity, in his words: ‘another mechanism in the […]

Lobster goes to the movies!

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] than the last Big Thing (whatever that was). Here’s what the film’s website has to say: ‘More than 45 million viewers hungry for a glimpse into the mind of their disgraced former commander in chief, and anxious for him to acknowledge the abuses of power that led to his resignation, sat transfixed as Nixon […]

Microwaves and mind control

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] my hope that she is involved: the subject desperately needs somebody of her calibre. Into the mainstream The cluster of subjects under the headings of microwaves and mind control continue to produce items of significance: the subject is finally breaking through into the mainstream media. For example a piece in the New Scientist of […]

Gordon Brown

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…]   I heard Bower interviewed on Radio 4. He said that he had begun this book as something of an admirer of Brown but had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is little which is new in this […]

The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] independent and critical minds, is unfortunately the smallest. On the right side of the political spectrum, only one article specifically dealing with the papal plot comes to mind, (23) although there are some fine academic studies of terrorism per se with a conservative or rightist bias. (24) On the left, this category is dominated […]

Secrets and Lies

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

Secrets and Lies: A history of CIA mind control and germ warfare Gordon Thomas JR Books (www.jrbooks.com) 2007, h/b, £20   Gordon Thomas has written a number of books on the intelligence services and this has a glossy cover, voluminous appendices and some admiring quotes. But it adds little to what we already know […]

The New Public Diplomacy: Soft power in international relations

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control (UDC). And when I first come across the term ‘public diplomacy’ the UDC came to mind. But in the case of ‘public diplomacy’, while public does mean open, diplomacy doesn’t mean diplomacy. ‘Public diplomacy’ is a recent term for a range of […]

The crisis

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] situation because there really isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said, for example by Larry Elliot in The Guardian every week.’ Well, I changed my mind about that and here are the bits I found most interesting or useful. Only one warning light on the UK economy: inflation The Bank of England’s […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] to PO Box 8345, Berkeley, CA 94707, or e-mail should suffice. Spotlight on Girard Harlan Girard, the American who turned me onto the electro-magnetic weaponry and mind control fields, and who has continued to organise and proselytize on these issues ever since, was the subject of an interview published in the American magazine […]

The aliens on the grassy knoll

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] on the latter ground alone is too often simply irrational, usually made for defensive reasons. (Just about the hardest thing most people can do is change their mind.) The Kennedy assassination and the UFO story are both examples of no-go areas for most respectable intellectuals. (When Scott Newton sent me the review essay on […]

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