[…] 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, […]
[…] own interest and that of his office, as well as in the general interest of the Lobby. It is a responsibility which should always be kept in mind. There is no ‘association’ of Lobby journalists, but in our common interests we act collectively as the Parliamentary Lobby Journalists. It has been found convenient to […]
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 […]
1. Getting closer… Despite the recent publicity about Bill Clinton, the impact made on him by Carroll Quigley, and the Rhodes Scholars’ network (see Lobster 27 p. 19, for examples), the academic world remains almost wholly unaware of Quigley’s work. In their essay ‘The Limits of Influence: foreign policy think tanks in Britain and the … Read more
[…] what is unknown is their purpose. Downloadable at See also her ‘Radiation poisoning of America’ at Loosely related to which contains a series of articles on the mind control conundrum. Particularly interesting is David Hambling’s short account of claims very similar to those made by today’s targetted individuals (TIs) which were made two hundred […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in the Western world and the repudiation of all totalitarian challenges.’ Josselson was in touch with Lasky and this plan combined well with what Lasky had in mind. Again there was a delay, Wisner not giving the go-ahead until 7th April, with a budget of $50,000 allocated.(47) Arthur Schlesinger, the liberal historian and friend […]
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 two pieces are a reworking of some of the information we have on that fuzzy, hearsay-laden area in which drugs (especially psychedelics), the intelligence agencies and mind control programmes overlapped. In the second part the author, Greg Krupey, reminds us of the claims made by Timothy Leary in his memoir Flashbacks that Mary […]
