Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, … Read more

Another Searchlight smear job

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] In fact the Nexus articles were Vialls’ fictionalised account of his experience of being a mind control victim; that in New Dawn was Vialls’ analysis of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. None of them contain any of Vialls political opinions; indeed, we have no idea what Vialls’ political opinions are. Neither, manifestly, does […]

The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] the spot when Gandhi was killed. The author claims that the two men were not on the consulate staff and left India on the night of the murder. (Report in Gulf Times 19 September 1998) Staggering on Still unwilling to acknowledge that the entire New Labour project is a turkey, the New Statesman remains […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

Korean war biological warfare? Issue 11 of the Bulletin of Cold War International History Project contained what appears to be evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem … Read more

Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

Part 1, 1974-83 See also: Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction This essay does not set out to be a comprehensive history of fascism in this period but rather to … Read more

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] chief constable rank or higher – has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.’ (4) Does this seem like a story to you? It did to me but not to the London media. Not a word of […]

Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] me as a victim of inter-gang terrorist rivalry. I believed at the time (as I still do) that the incident was the result of a conspiracy to murder initiated by the Security Service (MI5) and with me as the intended victim. I thought about reporting this to the police after it had happened but […]

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] correct, there were sections of the US military who had decided by 1968 that the domestic situation could not be left to the politicians and sanctioned the murder of the leading black opponent of their war in Vietnam. There’s a bigger story yet: the growth of the power of the US military in post-war […]

Northern Ireland &; CIA, Nairac & Phone-tapping

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

In this issue, as in No 3, we are recycling a lot of material from Irish newspapers, and one in particular, the Sunday News. One of our Irish readers describes the Sunday News as ‘almost wholly Catholic..Nationalist … moderately Social Democratic Labour Party rather than moderately Republican.’ We have no way of checking the veracity … Read more

Persian Drugs: Oliver North, the DEA and Covert Operations in the Mideast

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast … Read more

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