John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] presented to their supervisors back home as intelligence-gathering and some of those with whom they were talking described as ‘agents’. Stonehouse was an interesting figure: an anti- communist, anti-imperialist member of the Labour and Co-operative Party. Julia Stonehouse refers, in passing, to an article her father wrote which was published in a 1959 collection, […]

view from bridge

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[…] murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New York outfit, Marzani and Munsell, subsidised by the KGB.18 […]

Newton on Keynes

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[…] over the requirements of material sustenance and the drudgery of mindless wage work’.10 It was a vision which bore some striking similarities to Marx’s vision of a Communist society, where ‘society regulates the general production’ and scarcity would cease to exist, ending all need for the division of labour: ‘nobody has one exclusive sphere […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Talbott, The Russia Hand (New York: Random House, 2002) 31 Y. Brudny, ‘In Pursuit of the Russian Presidency: Why and How Yeltsin Won the 1996 Presidential Election’, Communist and PostCommunist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 255-275, 1997. 32 Aleksei Sanaev, ‘Vybory V Rossii: Kak eto Delaetsia’, Os’-89, 2005, p. 8, quoted in ‘Russia: […]

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[…] in America, especially the John Birch Society, which saw his book as proof that there really was a great conspiracy. It might not have been the great communist conspiracy the Birchers previously thought they could see but it was a conspiracy nonetheless.48 I was reminded of Quigley by a recently acquired copy of a […]

The Darkest Sides of Politics I & II by Jeffrey M Bale

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Project Coast, its exploration and use of chemical and biological weapons; and an account of the Unification Church (the ‘Moonies’), the Korean CIA and the World Anti- Communist League – all fine pieces of detailed parapolitical work. And then 9/11 happens and Bale sets out to explain On-line at or . 3 For volume […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] essay I glanced at, US Army officer Michael Ferguson’s short piece ‘The Evolution of Disinformation: How Public Opinion Became Proxy’.69 (Proxy?) Ferguson reminds his readers that the Communist International ran propaganda against the West and that the KGB created the Michael Lind, ‘The debunked “Russian influence” nonsense is infantilizing liberals’ at or . 67 […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this is undoubtedly true. Orwell, however, was not ‘appropriated’ by British intelligence services. He willingly cooperated with them, particularly in passing on the names of suspected 1 Communist fellow-travellers. Referring to the abolition of the Central Office of Information in 2011, Anthony also states (p. 20), ‘The constraints on centralised state power that existed […]

More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that allowed trusted interlocutors to side-step belligerent generals and committed political adversaries, without any of the complications of democracy. Monarchs also tended to share Hitler’s virulently anti- communist views.5 In the Hess case, we should note that after his second conversation with the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke came to London (15 May) and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] a superpower and a clear guarantor of peace. He does not see any threat to England from the Soviet Union, just as he does not see a communist threat in his country in general. In the meantime, good relations with such a country (i.e. if the Soviet Union views him, Hayward, as a major […]

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