Listen, Marxist

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] your demise but I never thought you were for real. Provocative or provocateur, you decide. Beyond Parody On 5 September the novelist and Daily Telegraph columnist A.N. Wilson announced the end of his column on the Telegraph Website which apparently — I have never read it — parodied the Prime Minister. Wilson wrote: ‘My […]

The politics of the organic movement – an overview

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

Since 1945, an Agricultural Revolution has occurred in Britain whose significance and impact outstrip anything which occurred in the 18th century. It has turned farming from the practice of husbandry into a form of industrial production, transformed the landscape through its destructive effects on traditional features and substantially changed the nature of the food we […]

The CIA and radiation experiments on humans

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] and Development Board, which included several panels and committees. For example, the Committee on Medical Sciences helped to formulate the policy which eventually led Secretary of Defense Wilson to issue the memorandum implementing the Nuremberg Code in 1953. The Code provided sufficient medical and ethical guidelines to safeguard the interest of volunteers in human […]

Blood revenge: the aftermath of the assassination of Airey Neave

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] squad responsible for the personal security of the President and for carrying out hostage rescues. They had been given the secret dossier in December 1982 by John Wilson, the operational head of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch. Although initially seen as a spectacular success, doubts soon arose about the real importance of the three ‘terrorists’ […]

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] set-up! Judging by what we know of the calibre of person recruited to British intelligence in those days, the suspicion of Roger Hollis, as in the Harold Wilson case, surely resulted from a paranoia that covered for ineptitude. Blaming traitors is easier than self-criticism. The Cambridge crew dropped out of communist politics when they […]

Drugs, oil and war

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] factors reinforce the continuity sketched in the preceding paragraph. One is the continuing involvement of regular or “rogue” CIA officers , such as Ray Cline or Edwin Wilson, at every stage.13 Another, not unrelated, is the recurring allegations that the China Lobby, the Unification Church and the APACL have all derived their considerable budgets […]

Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Government supplied more small arms to its Moslem Northern stooges than the British Army fired in the whole of World War Two. Search the memoirs of Lord Wilson, Lord Healey (directly responsible) and Lord Callaghan (deeply involved in planning the covert operations in Nigeria) and you will find black holocaust denial. Nor, sadly, will […]

Dean Andrews’ testimony to the Warren Commission

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] telling us that the taxi driver’s version of the shooting in Dallas was not a million miles from that described in the first volume of the Shea/ Wilson fantasy The Illuminatus Trilogy, with teams of would-be assassins bumping into each other in the bushes behind the grassy knoll. If true, ‘Milan’s’ book is a […]

Bean counters and empire

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] much the same way that Malaya (or Korea) had in the ’40s and ’50s. Walker was particularly active in 1974–1976 in manoeuvres that aimed to replace the Wilson government with a non-party coalition. These were interesting times: the miners’ strikes of 1972 and 1974, triggered by years of disputes about pay and colliery closures, […]

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