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 […]
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 […]
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 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] the loony fringe of America (William Cooper and dumber), via an enormous range of writing on the entire spectrum of single issue subjects (murders, scandals, conspiracies, CIA, mind control, etc.), through to major, solid pieces about the New World Order, MAI, consumer boycotts and so forth. The ratio of junk to the worthwhile used […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] very long, have only had time to read it (quickly) once, so this is by way of an interim report. But a second reading won’t change my mind that this is a very good book. I enjoyed this more than anything else I have read for years. It is also an important book. There […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] practitioners of government. We are relatively free of the problems of status, of precedence, departmental attitudes and evasions of personal responsibility, which create the official cast of mind. We do not have to develop, like the Parliamentarians conditioned by a lifetime, the ability to produce the ready phrase, the smart reply and the flashing […]