Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] deeply ingrained and taken for granted that it was never called into question and thus seldom given overt expression. Indeed, once in Albania and working with the Communist resistance, he quite happily dressed like a partisan wearing a cap with a red star and giving ‘the communist salute to whomever I meet’. (p. 191) […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] at the Hague notwithstanding, go back many decades and indeed were supported by the USA when they were pursued by the Nationalist Chinese government prior to the Communist takeover in 1949.12 The expansion of Chinese naval power in the region is designed to deter the US, which has assembled and deployed a formidable maritime […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] of the British state’s anti-Soviet propaganda organisation IRD could be cited in the defence of the Soviet Union. IRD manufactured disinformation about the Soviet Union and ‘the communist threat’. A recent article on the organisation, based on recently declassified files, begins with this: The British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, […]
[PDF file]: […] from Amazon and all good bookshops. 34 11 could be cited in the defence of the Soviet Union. IRD manufactured disinformation about the Soviet Union and ‘the communist threat’. A recent article on the organisation, based on recently declassified files, begins with this: The British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.13 In one of their earliest cases, Williams hired Maheu to investigate a politically charged murder case involving U.S. intelligence agents and communist partisans in World War II Italy, involving $100 million in lost Allied gold. The case, which had major political implications in Italy, interested the CIA deeply. […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] said) to escape from the secretive and authoritarian mindset typical of that organisation, has embarked on an attempt to recreate something of the old Soviet bloc, replacing Communist ideology with Greater Russian chauvinism. This campaign has been characterised by determination to reverse what are seen as the humiliations of the Yeltsin era and to […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the material was compiled by Victor Raikes and Anthony Courtney will raise eyebrows in some quarters. Both were prominent figures in the ‘40s and ‘50s, fiercely anti- communist and major figures in the Monday Club. Like many on the right they were 7 See Lobster 52. 8 See for Mosley and his recent connections […]