Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] climate change dominated British media, a subject he ignored. The President seemed unaware that Pope Benedict, the week before – doubtless with the upcoming Presidential speech in mind – gave his first as pontiff, priming global audiences about love, which coincides with China’s ‘Harmony’ PR , discussed below. Pope Benedict similarly outflanked the President […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] it has ‘never denied’ having manipulation weapons. (I received a phone call and two faxes from an Official Secrets Act Section 1(1) covered civil servant to re mind me of this, whilst on vacation, three days before recording an interview for a TV documentary that was screened nationally in the UK on 12 May […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Brian Burkitt and Andy Mullen Congress for Democracy (www.congressfordemocracy.org.uk) 38 pages, £5 in UK This is a useful companion piece to Andy Mullen’s essay in this issue. The authors believe that whatever this government says its policy towards the euro is, it has decided to enter the euro and is ‘playing a long game…. preparing … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Armen Victorian Vision Paperbacks, London, 1999, £9.99 With the addition of a four new essays, this books contains the writing of Armen Victorian published in Lobster since his first essay appeared in Lobster 23 in 1992 (and issues 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 32, 34 and 36). Most welcome of the … Read more
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Susan. L. Carruthers Leicester University Press, London and New York, 1995 £45 hb, £16.99 pb. This is an important study of British psy-war activities, and the politics thereof, since the war. Almost all of this book was new to me, though I haven’t studied anti-British insurgencies. Originally a PhD thesis, happily, in Carruthers case, this … Read more
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From the … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] in counter-intelligence parlance as “gray” intelligence. The question of whether they are genuine, authentic or real is not the issue here. The important point to keep in mind, as I believe, is the information contained in the documents themselves. For in these documents and the FOIA material already released, and the published facts contain […]
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 Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] she could have gone down fighting. Instead, she gave in and quit — just as she had done in 198081 over Monetary Base Control. Notes A Single Mind, MacMillan, 1989. This distinction is all the more interesting for in Joseph’s case, as Halcrow’s biography is honest enough to point out, Joseph’s conversion to monetarism […]