Agreement! The State, Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Mrs Thatcher, North Sea oil and the hegemony of the City

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 […]

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Iraq misc.

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think about the ‘perception management operations’ in ‘ Mind Games’ on the NATO Web site. (1) ‘Perception management includes all actions used to influence the attitudes and objective reasoning of foreign audiences and consists of […]

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The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] after Suez is a good time for Britons to reflect on empire. Our military is again deployed in regions of the world more associated in the national mind with the 19th century than the 21st, while the children of the poorer regions of Britain are still losing their lives defending the overseas interests on […]

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Wake Up Down There! The Excluded Middle Collection

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] Steamshovel and shares much of its subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who took acid, read Leary, […]

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Cyberculture: Counterconspiracy

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] photographs. All the usual suspects are here: Bracken, Keith, Thomas, Constantine, Martin – and a lot of names unfamiliar to me. Material ranges from Jack Kerouac to mind control and the quality ranges from the poor (though there isn’t much of that) to the seriously good. To give a flavour of all this, the […]

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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 […]

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Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] the neo-conservative right, to establish a new balance of terror. No third party should offer unqualified support to someone who has not yet made up their own mind about what is right and proper. Second, our security and intelligence community ceased to question their premises and became locked into an Atlanticist group-think about the […]

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Beyond The Da Vinci Code

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] bought his way into the Western intelligence fraternity by handing over extensive files on anti-Soviet intelligence networks behind enemy lines in 1945/6. (1) What brought Gehlen to mind was a mischievous little article in a recent edition of the French newsletter Intelligence Online (2) reminding us that the new Pope Benedict XVI was formerly […]

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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 […]

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