Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] Moon’s and Kim’s purposes, which may have been perfectly complementary? Or were they sent by counterintelligence expert Kim to infiltrate the UC and manipulate it for his hidden purposes? This will probably remain a mystery, as there is circumstantial evidence to suggest all three interpretations and not enough hard data to conclusively resolve the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] discovery (sic) of ‘interest groups’ and ‘pressure groups’. The parapolitical perspective, on the other hand, the conspiracy perspective, takes for granted that there are likely to be hidden influences at work because there is a mountain of historical evidence which shows hidden influences at work: not giant world-conquering conspiracies by the Masons or some […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20 Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Hernando Calvo Ospina Translated by Stephen Wilkinson and Alasdair Holden London and Sterling,VA.: Pluto Press, 2002, pb, £10.99 This is the first book to document the on-going attempt by the Bacardi company to both help overthrow the Fidelista Cuban Government and sabotage the commercial interests of competing, Cuban-sourced, rum companies. It also documents the … Read more
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
John Pilger Vintage Books, London,1998, £8.99 pb As one of the few serious radicals in this country to whom the mass media pay any attention, Pilger is important. This is a collection of essays, a few already published but most written for this book. We are back in what is recognisably Pilgerland: the corruptions of … Read more
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] to Kennedy for possible blackmail – probably because of her Czech background. (For some reason Novotny believed that photos existed of her love making sessions taken from hidden cameras in the UN building.) It was reported that on leaving America Towers went to Prague, Moscow, and Peking, stopping for a time in southern Ireland […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] anon in Dubai and Simon Matthews for cuttings and other information. Morris Riley – an apology In Lobster 37 (p. 47) I said his book, Philby: the Hidden Years, had been ‘published without anyone looking at the final typeset copy’. This is false. I failed to notice the publisher’s explanation for the long underlined […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] a town where Jones preached as a child), and kept (Jones) from being arrested or run out of town.’ This information is attributed to A. J. Langguth’s Hidden Terrors, which does, in fact, tell us that Dan Mitrione was a police chief in Richmond, Ind. But this is well known. What’s interesting and important […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] it, the media operate with an array of moral and political assumptions, roughly speaking those of the liberal-individualist ideology of Western culture with its emotivist ethics and hidden dependence on existing power structures. After Dark broke all these rules from the beginning, built as it was by the Viennese to reflect the polygon of […]
