Mind control update

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

Mind control update Writing about something you don’t really understand, it’s easy to make bad early decisions. It’s like being self-taught on an instrument and acquiring bad habits. In this case I began by naming this subject ‘ELF’, extremely low frequency, which was about all I picked up from my initial reading of the torrent … Read more

Behind right-wing conspiracy theories

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] occult secret societies. The Hebrew Talisman links these fears to Mediaeval ideas that the Jews were a sinister force plotting against Christians by means such as ritual murder and mass poisoning. Where earlier conspiracy theorists had seen the plotting of the secret societies as consisting of traditional activities such as assassination and the fomenting […]

Sources. Publications etc

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 […]

Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] himself on the left. He played an important part in the opposition to the Lloyd George Coalition’s Irish policy, in particular the so-called ‘reprisals’ policy with its murder squads and house-burnings. And then he joined the Labour Party. The eagerness with which the Labour Party, including the party at constituency level, welcomed this upper […]

The ‘Terrorist Threat’ in Britain

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

With the decline of the revolutionary socialist Left the Right has turned to the anarchists for a law-and-order bogeyman – and a stick to beat the Left with. One journalist involved is Jamie Dettmer. Having worked for Tribune for a while, Dettmer migrated to the Sunday Telegraph (for whom his first article was an ‘expose’ … Read more

West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

William Blum New York: Soft Skull Press, 2002, $15 www.softskull.com   The working lives of writers, especially writers of non-fiction like Blum – or me – are rather dull. To produce Lobster and my other bits and pieces I have to stay in one place, read e-mails every day, books, newspapers, visit libraries, go to … Read more

The View from the Bridge

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

The covert origins of the Biafran War

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] officials of the South, who were forever building schools and dispensaries, “nigger lovers”. ‘In this topsy turvy world of secret intelligence reports, MI5, pimps, prostitutes, rape and murder, presided over by the Colonial Office and Harold Macmillan, it was not surprising that the Nigerian political leader of great personal integrity and honesty — Awolowo […]

Stakeknife and Mad Dog

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] politicians claimed that the FRU was directed at loyalist and republican para-militaries, this is simply untrue ….the FRU was prevented by RUC Special Branch from infiltrating loyalist murder gangs.’ (p. 32) (1) The exception to this was ex-Army Brian Nelson, the ‘intelligence officer’ of the UDA, who directed the UDA’s killing of republicans for […]

Parapolitical bits and pieces

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] its entirety … (they) present recent Soviet missile deployments in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the GDR as legitimately defensive ” etc. A large (two page) piece on the murder of Hilda Murrell (the anti-nuclear campaigner) in New Statesman (9 November 1984), laying out all the oddities in the case. Tam Dalyell’s repeated claims that this […]

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