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 […]

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 […]

Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. Defining (a) what Nikola Tesla actually did, and (b) if he can be rescued from the cranks, is one of the great Everests of historical […]

Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] the NF saw themselves as ‘Strasserite’ but there is yet another reason why the NF cannot be simplistically labelled Strasserite: Strasserism was only ever an attitude of mind, and a partial one at that, as opposed to a strategy. Thus the real capitulation and defeat for Strasserism in Germany occurred not as late as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] which was attributed to ‘reports received by Western intelligence’. Crazy wavies, right? Meanwhile, out there in the wonderful world of commercial science, the ability to do what mind control victims have been complaining of for nearly 20 years, is coming into view. On 8 April CNN reported that a Sony scientist has a patent, […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] with ‘the interaction between electric and/or magnetic fields and living organisms, and related topics’. In other words, if you are remotely interested in the whole area of mind control technology, ELF, psychotronic weapons etc., and want to keep abreast of the literature, this is the place to start. Issue 28, for example, contains the […]

Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] intense official resistance has become. What follows, nevertheless, is a quick sketch of what all such investigators — and the public — ought to have firmly in mind. A variety of sources have been assembled here into a rough chronological narrative. But the scope of this narrative is so great that only major chapters […]

The Euro: The Battle for British Hearts and Minds

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

Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] and though it is generally regarded as bad form to speak ill of the dead, this is a very poor book. This is Keith’s survey of the mind control story: Cameron, Delgado, Esterbrook, Persinger, West, HAARP – all the usual names are here and given cursory treatments in short chapters. But there is also […]

Mind Controllers

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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

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