Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] he knows of other cases of people who have been involved in disputes with the police have been subjected to harassment. Kennedy has approached his telecommunications provider, Cable London; Oftel, the telecommunications regulatory body; his MP, Brian Sedgemore; the Home Secretary, Jack Straw; the Metropolitan Police; and the Interception of Communications Tribunal. But without […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] the British Right in general. It joins a growing body of recent publications in the field. Particularly deserving of mention are Tony Kushner and Nadia Valman’s Remembering Cable Street; Dave Renton’s Fascism, Anti Fascism and Britain in the 1940s; Richard Griffiths’ Patriotism Perverted; Trevor Grundy’s Memoir of a Fascist Childhood; and John Hope’s excellent […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
Marc Seifer Birch Lane Press, 1996. £15.95 (plus £2 postage) from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL. In the last 15-20 years the name Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. … Read more
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] economically and isolate Allende’s govt diplomatically between 1970-73. In a document dated October 16 1970, CIA deputy director of plans, Thomas Karamessines, conveys Kissinger’s orders in a cable, to the CIA station chief in Santiago: ‘it is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup. It would be much preferable to […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Echelon The piece below arrived, through the magic of e-mail forwarding, via the following: Jane Affleck, Terry Hanstock, and Julian Assange. The report referred to is a companion to Nicky Hager’s book Secret Power (review in Lobster 32 at p. 47). See also ‘The Technology of Political Control’, Robin Ballantyne, in Covert Action Quarterly, Spring … Read more
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Obituaries Ace Hayes (1940-1998) by Daniel Brandt Ace R. Hayes, 58, an activist and political researcher who was well-known in the Portland, Oregon area, died on February 13, 1998 from an aneurism in the brain. Corruption and conspiracy in high places is the name of the game, but Ace was on the case. His broad […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] Knight, he demonstrates a general point, that ‘MI5 colluded with British fascism in the interwar years’. Lewis examines the role of the police in the Battle of Cable Street, and in implementing the POA. He stresses that the POA was used more against the left than the right, and argues that the actions of […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Books (!) criticising the Russian military operation begun in December to quell the secessionist rebellion in Chechnya.’ Watch what you write, old boy! Alien autopsy? The Murdoch cable Fox TV network ran an hour-long show based on the Ray Santilli-sponsored footage of the alleged autopsy performed on a dead alien at Fort Worth Air […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. No evidence has yet surfaced to the contrary. But it seems hard to believe that the National Security Agency, whose monitoring of international cable traffic first brought the deals to Defence Secreatary Casper Weinberger’s attention in 1985, picked up no trace of the bank’s activity in this regard.(10) According to […]
