Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] America but for readers of this journal it won’t be of much interest. Sort of Greg Palast lite; Gore Vidal without the style. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Vatican Paul L. Williams Prometheus Books, New York, 2003 h/b, $27.00 www.prometheusbooks.com A short (200 pages, large print) and sharp history of the Catholic […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] O’Hagan, Sunday World 11 February 1990 p.19. TARA Tara: there is not the basis for peaceful co- existence — Sunday News, 24th March 1974 p7. Colin Wallace Murder suspect Army spy? Sunday World, 28 September 1980 pp.1 and 3 Harry Irwin NOW! Gregory Voysey writes: In Lobster 17 (pp14-16) you note that Now!, a […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 … Read more
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
The Oyston Affair appears to have been the longest and most expensive privately-funded political dirty tricks campaign in recent British history. The astonishing 15-year campaign waged against Owen Oyston by Michael Murrin, the owner of a fish and chip shop in the village of Longridge, Lancs, was backed by help and cash payments raised by … Read more
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] those perceptions seem very odd indeed. Carr quotes a letter from one of the AB defendants: ‘Killing Mr Heath, Mr Maudling and Mr Powell would not be murder, the removal of tyrants such as these can only further the cause of humanity.’ Or take this from AB’s Communiqué No 7: ‘The Angry Brigade became […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] publisher on the eve of its appearance. I am grateful to Lobster for reviving “Transnationalised Repression”. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies (Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] as a copycat crime, carried out by unconnected criminals. It took nearly four months for the LAPD to arrest and indict Manson and co. for the two murder sprees. O’Neill sets out to prove that the powers-that-be of the LAPD knew early on that Manson and the Family were the murderers; which leads to […]