Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] February that more than 11,000 injured had been through Andrews air force base in the previous nine months and the real figure was probably higher than that. Mike Small is one of an editorial group running Indymedia Scotland and is writing a book on ‘Blairusconi: the New Labour Project and the Italian Right’.
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] compile a detailed account of the Commonwealth Bilderberg’s origins in which he also suggests that the original Bilderberg had assumed a significant degree of importance to senior Labour Party figures. Philip Murphy, ‘By invitation only: Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, and the attempt to create a Commonwealth “Bilderberg Group”, 1964-66’. The Journal of Imperial and […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
This essay has been written using recently declassified records on Project Pandora released on 19 December 1994 to the author after a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed three years ago. The aim of Project Pandora was to study the microwave frequencies targeted on the US Embassy in Moscow by the Soviets during the 1960s … Read more
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] conviction, guilty or otherwise; net snooping at work; Echelon and its cousins; the origins of the surveillance society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; the growth of federal law enforcement agencies and their intelligence gathering; the growth of private, political intelligence gathering from […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] parapsychologist Edward Naumov, mentioned above, who was the key Soviet contact for the authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, was sentenced to two years hard labour for a semi-related petty offence and remanded to a psychiatric ‘treatment facility’.(9) The change in the official line seems to have been an attempt not only […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan Powell finds the […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] class and to eradicate the reforms won by decades of peaceful struggle’. (p.101) This, I would remind him, could equally well characterise both Thatcherism and the New Labour project. ‘Reaction’ in Renton’s shaky hands is merely shorthand for people whose views he and the SWP leadership (before whom he genuflects) don’t like. In case […]