Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] they are doing anything wrong or unusual. G2, 27 March, 2007. Did anyone in that press office know that the theme of the book is the meaningless murder of an Arab? Four of them were reviewed in The New York Review of Books 1 March 2007. The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] of the Second World War, Smith and Kay (Putnam 1972) includes virtually all the information in Last Talons of the Eagle. See Tom Bower, Blind Eye to Murder – Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, a Pledge Betrayed (1981) and The Paperclip Conspiracy (1984) and Christopher Simpson, Blowback – America’s Recruitment of […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] lecture by Peter Dale Scott on the global drug traffic and US intelligence; a long piece by Ralph Schoenman (there’s a blast from the past!) on the murder of Robert Kennedy, inter alia taking issue with Dan Moldea’s recent exculpation of Thane Cesar, everybody else’s candidate for the role of the actual assassin (see […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
Robert Caro New York and London: Alfred Knopf, 2002, hb $35 (US) £35 (UK) (But in the UK only £22 from Amazon.com) This is the third volume in Caro’s biography of LBJ. The first two volumes are wonderful pieces of work, the best biographies I have read; and in many ways this is their … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
Alien baloney In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from them. … Read more
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners Seumas Milne London: Verso, 2004, p/back, £8 GB84 David Peace London: Faber & Faber, 2004, p/back, £12.99 On the 20th anniversary of the most significant power struggle in post war Britain, two very different books on the miners’ strike of 1984-85, read alongside each other, … Read more