Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson London, Little, Brown and Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] from Noel Buxton, 7 Mar 1940. Aberconway held many directorships in the iron, steel and shipbuilding industries. In 1939 he had been, for example, chairman of Firth Brown Steel and of Westland, and a director of the National Provincial Bank. Information from Professor R.M. Griffiths (University of London). Professor Griffiths possesses the membership book […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] For more on John Paul II’s policies, see Paul Johnson, Zizola and the highly controversial (and apparently falsified) work by Gronowicz. For his activities in Poland, see Brown (ed) and Hanson pp.197-233. Herman and Brodhead pp. 241-4. Like its ‘Bulgarian connection’ counterpart, it consists mainly of suppositions, hypothesised linkages and circumstantial evidence. This notion […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
Kevin McClure John Brown Publishing, London, 1996, £9.99 Subtitled ‘Doomsday Cults, Hopeless Predictions, Visions and Warning Signs How the World Will End’, McClure gives us a guided tour through some of the wackier people out there on the religious and political fringes, currently and historically, written in his beguilingly simple style. This is not […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] GCHQ BLUNSON, TERRENCE IRD 50-60’S REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE MIDDLE EAST -80’S REUTERS BROOKE-BOOTH, COL. S.P. MI5 (‘ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT’, NICHOLAS KELSO 1988) 1939-45 COMMUNIST SECTION UNDER HOLLIS BROWN, ALLAN IRD 39-45 BALKANS 50’s JOURNALIST EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS -61 WORKING FOR THE NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY, GOA 60’s FORUM WORLD FEATURES 80’s SECURITY […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
A. J. Davies Little Brown and Co London, 1995, £20 Davies provides in equal measure a perceptive and comprehensive account of the modern Conservative Party which, hopefully, will lead to further reappraisals of Conservative history. In contrast to, for example, Lord Blake’s standard history of the Party over much the same period, We, The […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] contract by the undiplomatic Geldof to polish the public appearances of the FCO is linked to the closeness of the former Boomtown Rat to Blair and Gordon Brown in last year’s G8 gathering is a question not likely to be asked by the many journalists now on the Geldof payroll. On Ten Alps’ books […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its […]
