The Conspirators: secrets of an Iran-Contra insider

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] In short, the entire section appears to be false in virtually every detail. There is another section which made me wonder. On p. 58 he describes the murder of a witness and writes: ‘This was actually a sanitation team which had been sent from Department 4 of the Central Directorate – otherwise known as […]

Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] that lay behind the operation. As far as Pius was concerned, Nazi war criminals were first and foremost anti-Communists and this was more important than any mass murder they might have committed. He actually interceded with the incredulous Allies to urge clemency for the likes of Arthur Greiser and Hans Frank. Even more astonishing, […]

No smoke without fire?

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] photographic evidence. In such circumstances it becomes difficult to tell the difference between a safe and an unsafe conviction. This approach would not be allowed in a murder or robbery trial, for instance. More importantly it would not be followed in instances where a child is kidnapped and murdered (Soham), or tortured and neglected […]

Mind Control and the American Government

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] he can do a lot of damage.’ (47) This last statement is particuarly evocative. In 1984 a violent neo-Nazi group called The Order — responsible for the murder of talk show host Alan Berg — established contact with two government scientists engaged in clandestine research to project chemical imbalances and render targeted individuals docile […]

Kincoragate: More Bodies

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] up a pseudo-gang to terrorise Catholics. He had also infiltrated the UDA in 1972 to 1973. None of the others in the gang were ever charged with murder, but Baker was jailed after pleading guilty. He was secretly visited in his cell by Lord Windlesham, then Minister of State at Stormont. He was later […]

Journals

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] a mental asylum. (Bolden and the Chicago incident are discussed at length in Vincent Palamara’s The Third Alternative – Survivor’s Guilt: the Secret Service and the JFK Murder. See Lobster 27 pp 26 and 31 for how to obtain this. Palamara’s work, though badly organised, deserves a much wider audience.) The second JFK piece […]

Terrorism: how the West can win

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] dead but stinking.) Such definitions of “terrorism” that are attempted merely produce problems. The version offered by the editor (p9) is: “terrorism is the deliberate and systematic murder maiming and menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends.” Which just about covers the whole of American foreign policy since the late 19th […]

Anglo-America and the Third Reich

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism – 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99   I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 reinterprets … Read more

America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] also having good connections with the leadership of eastern European left and Communist parties. Much early military assistance for Israel, in the 1940s, came from Czechoslovakia. The murder of Bernadotte was organised by a small group that included Yitzhak Shamir, later Prime Minister of Israel 1983-1984 and 1986-1992. It took place during a critical […]

American PR and Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Mel Gibson’s movie Throughout the ages, the Vatican’s iconic depiction of the Crucifixion has been an example of one of PR’s most effective ‘tactics’: the freeze-framing and subsequent promotion of a single event, to dictate perception, itself a marketing tactic. (The same ‘mind control’ is apparent in marketing today, when, say, a ‘life-style’ freeze-frame is … Read more

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