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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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 […]

The Age of Insecurity

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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 […]

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, […]

Loose cuts and short ends

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 […]

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 […]

Remote Viewing and the US intelligence community

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] This is discussed in Lobster 30 ‘The Emergence of Project SCANATE; The First Espionage-worthy Remote Viewing Experiment – Summer 1973’. Ingo Swann, Dec. 29, 1995, InterNet. See Mind to Mind, Rene Warcollier, Creative Age Press, NY 1946. See Exploring the Ultra-Perceptive Faculty, J. Hittinger, Rider & Co., London, 1941. Ingo Swann interview on ‘Dreamland’ […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] rightist kuromako, see Nakamura, pp. 16-19; Halloran, p. 2; Roberts (1973), p. 14. Dixon, pp. 211-212. Anderson and Anderson, p. 125. There is some question in my mind as to whether he was a ‘lieutenant’ of Kodama’s as early as 1962, or whether he only became one later. The precise dating could have explanatory […]

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 […]

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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