Value Wars: The Global Market versus the Life Economy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

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 […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] 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 […]

The Assassination of John Kennedy: An Alternative Hypothesis

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] 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 […]

The Neave letters

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

Never mind Peter Wright, he was obviously lying in Spycatcher anyway. Wallace is a vastly more important source: he doesn’t tell lies, for one thing; and he’s got bits of paper, evidence, some of which concerns his dealings with the late Airey Neave after he was thrown out of government service. At the time […]

Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] of him,’ I replied. ‘Why?’ It turned out Spencer had been asking questions about a rather sensitive American project whose initials are HAARP which links to various mind control and weather modification projects. This was about the only time I made a correct prediction. I said to the researcher something to the effect that […]

The Threat to Reason

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] being a conflict between radical Islam and ‘the enlightenment’. (12) Some of this came from former members of the Left (Christopher Hitchens and John Lloyd spring to mind) who have become cheerleaders for American imperialism. ‘Politicians most often define the Enlightenment in terms of its opposition to forces of unreason, whether they be jihadis, […]

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] subsequently informed me that the full report on Srebrenica, commissioned by the Dutch government, including the material which made up his book, is on-line, in English, at Mind control At is a large 1986 ‘Bibliography on the psychoactivity of electro-magnetic fields’ by two of the well known names in the field, Robert Beck and […]

Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] a mosque as a fixture in her Golden Jubilee Year. Instead, they could have countered with an alternative T-shirt that challenged al-Qaida. One, in particular, comes to mind i.e. one imprinted with the image of a dead Roman Catholic priest, his dog-collar grimy, carried from the wreckage of the Twin Towers by the surviving […]

The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Introduction In early January the American writer Martin Cannon, whose ‘ Mind Control and the American Government’, was published in Lobster 23, and who has a very interesting letter in this issue, offered me a big piece of his on the so-called Gemstone File. Cannon had got access to some of the original documents […]

The 1986 National Front Split, Part 1

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] constitution concerning the suspension of Anderson, while such a reading is possible, common sense (and ‘natural justice’) say that Griffin was in the wrong.(17) He did not mind this, for he knew that if matters did come to court, provided the ‘political soldiers’ retained the Directorate majority they had only just acquired, the legal […]

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