Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] to John Major, and the Labour Party leadership began the long and tortuous process of full-scale conversion to being another Tory Party. And we got Blair and Brown after John Smith’s heart attack. And we got an end to the party’s members, via annual conference, having any say at all in policy making. I […]

Reflections On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder – a prof with a Kashalnikov! Notes 1 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown believe in the fairy story Uncle Sam. They really do. This is what makes them so useful to the Americans. They didn’t have to be bought: […]

Cold War stories 2

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] the American Federation of Labour (AFL) dismissed the idea that filling people’s bellies would undermine their support for communism. For AFL leaders like Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown, the battle had to be fought overtly and covertly on all fronts: economic, political, cultural. Yet despite labour resistance to the American-led productivity drive across Western […]

Plotting for Peace and War

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] Spain and Portugal during the late summer and early autumn of 1940 although most of this is familiar, having not long ago been aired by Anthony Cave Brown in C (1988), the biography of Stewart Menzies. And was it really necessary to give a blow-by-blow account of the military campaign in northern France during […]

Another layer of cover: Nick Cook’s ‘The Hunt for Zero Point’ examined

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] The only source he can trace is too scared to talk to him. His archive searches turn up electrical anti-gravity experiments in the US by Thomas T. Brown in the 1920s, and a secret 1947 memorandum on disc-shaped UFOs by Lt. General Twining. This states that ‘it is within the present US knowledge…..to construct […]

UFOs and disinformation

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] Notes 1 The Joint Chiefs plan document is at http://www.majesticdocuments.com/documents/archives/nationalarchives.html Such plans continued to be drawn up throughout the 1950s. Operation:World War III, edited by Anthony Cave Brown (London: Arms and Armour Press, 1978) is about another such plan, Operation Dropshot, from 1957. 2 And much better fakes in my opinion – ed. 3 […]

Confessions of a Crawler

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] man was Irwin Stelzer (once again not mentioned in either the Rentoul or Rawnsley books). Stelzer, a right-wing economist, had privileged access to both Blair and Gordon Brown before and after the 1997 general election, assuming the role of go-between that had been Wyatt’s under the Tories. (5) Wyatt himself complained of how Stelzer […]

Black Gold: The New Frontier In Oil For Investors

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

George Orwel London, John Wiley, 2006, £18.99, h/b   Having reviewed Matt Simmons’ Twilight In the Desert for the last issue of Lobster I looked forward to reading George Orwel’s book as Simmons’ appreciation appears on its cover. Orwel provides a good analysis of the peak oil debate concluding that the truth lies somewhere in … Read more

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] doing the City’s bidding, handed over the interest rate to the Bank of England, which promptly put the base rate up, and with it sterling’s international value. Brown and Blair have never understood the basics of the British economy. British manufacturing is so defeated it appears to have even given up appealing for a […]

Late breaking news on Clay Shaw’s United Kingdom contacts

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

Introduction: Lee Harvey Oswald and New Orleans Lee Harvey Oswald, like his mother Marguerite Oswald (née Claverie), was born in New Orleans, on 18th October 1939, and spent his first five years in the Crescent City. In early 1944 Mrs Oswald moved to Dallas with Lee and his half-brother, John Pic. She changed addresses frequently … Read more

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