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
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
[…] at work. On the perspective I am suggesting, almost before Kennedy’s heart stopped beating the one thing which everyone involved would have agreed upon, without discussion, never mind coercion, was that a ‘lone nut’ verdict had to emerge. The ‘truth’ was not an issue: in politics the ‘truth’ is simply a tool. (4) The […]
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
[…] but the effect can be unintentionally comic: ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, […]
[…] thereby to draw some very general conclusions about the nature and meaning of police power. I suggested that the audience might bear one very simple criterion in mind when considering the changing nature of police power, namely the high level of arrests over the last few years: 10,000 during the miners’ strike; 200-400 during […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] produced, as if by magic, chatty grenades, exploding first in central Europe and then the UK, disturbing the smooth efficiency of the schedules and the peace of mind of the broadcasters with happy regularity. After Dark turned out to be some kind of anti-television experiment, a programme which, despite the careful plans and preparations […]
[…] we have been given of it over the years has purposely been made more complex than the reality deserves and the above statement should be held in mind whenever reading this book. It is quite fair to say that everything I read or see about developments in Northern Ireland has been given a new […]
John McMurtry London: Pluto Press, 2002, pb £15.99 I shouldn’t be reviewing this. I haven’t digested it properly and it is going to take some time to do so. But I don’t want to leave this for six months without promoting it. I used to try and preserve books in good condition, didn’t write […]
