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
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
[…] polarisation, a con via ballot-box. A con so wicked that citizens of a little town of Beslen will be expected to be grateful for ‘the vote’. Never mind that in 2004, Beslen’s children, parents and teachers paid the price of barbaric, corrupt, ‘democratic’ (!) Russian policies in Chechnya. A con so contemptuous of its […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance in Targets Practicised by the British “Permanent Government”‘, an attempt to systematise what is known about this difficult subject – Whittaker has been dealing with […]
[…] Willan wrote the wonderful The Puppet Masters about post-war Italian politics and this is more of the same, a smaller patch examined in more detail. Never mind the subtitle: yes, he does reexamine the events leading up to Calvi’s suicide or ‘suicide’; but at its heart this is an account of some of […]
[…] very charming toff. I asked him about the ‘Wilson plots’. He told me nothing of consequence; and he may have known nothing of consequence. I couldn’t tell. Mind control At is a large 1986 ‘Bibliography on the psycho-activity of electromagnetic fields’ by two of the well known names in the field, Robert Beck and […]
Lost plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish […]
[…] trouser the odd rouble by advising Boris Berezovsky, Roman Abramovich’s former partner who sought asylum here from Russia a while ago. Money doesn’t buy you peace of mind, though, and security and self-preservation are paramount. Berezovsky, for example, has on occasion ‘…hired six identical limousines, which passed through the gates of his house in […]
