John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the … Read more
Pieces without an author are by the editor. Parish Notices Thanks to Jane Affleck, Richard Alexander, John Burnes, Phil Chamberlain, Terry Hanstock, Robert Henderson, Paul Lashmar, Philip Murphy, Rom, David Turner, Peter Watson and Robin Whittaker for information. This issue of Lobster would have appeared a week or so earlier than it did had it … Read more
Pieces without an author are by the editor. Parish Notices Thanks to Robin Whittaker (in particular), Rom, Jane Affleck, Terry Hanstock, anon in Dubai, Chris Tame, Robert Henderson, Peter Watson and David Turner for information. Thanks to Chris Gordon-Wilson for a donation of £50. This is a belting good issue, in my view, with a … Read more
All the issues thus far of Lobster, numbers 1-40, plus the special issue, The Clandestine Caucus, are now available on a fully-searchable CD-Rom. The Lobster CD-Rom requires a PC or Mac with a Web browser installed. The CD’s search engine requires your browser to be Java enabled. On PCs this means MS Internet Explorer … Read more
From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently the … Read more
Pieces without an author’s name are by the editor Parish Notices Errors in Issue 53 In the review The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism, Richard Cummings appeared as John Cummings. On the front cover and on pp. 2 and 31 Corinne Souza was given as Corinne de Souza. Considering that both have written for this … Read more
Parish Notices Thanks to: Rom, Jane Affleck, Jeff Bale, Mal Function, Robin Whittaker, Chris Tame, Tom Easton (and probably other people I have forgotten), for information. Once again there is a lot in this issue about the Anglo-American assault on Iraq. For what it is worth it seems to me that it is much more … Read more
Text without an author is by the editor Parish Notices Thanks to Robin Whittaker, Mal Function, Rom, Jane Affleck, Terry Hanstock and Peter Hancock for information since the last issue. There isn’t much to be said here except to apologise for the technical disaster which was the previous issue. Computers are wonderful tools when they … Read more
Wellington Pacific Review Owen Wilkes has ceased production of Wellington Pacific Review (ISSN 0135-5619), the New Zealand newsletter on events in that part of the Pacific, but it continues under the control of Iain MacDougall. At £10/ US 14 for 10 issues, WPR should be on the list of anyone with even a passing interest … Read more
The price you pay In his ‘Ministers’ justification for the banning of an alleged terrorist group is based on propaganda and an outright untruth’ in The Guardian , 19 October 2005, former UK Uzbekistan ambassador Craig Murray, who seems bent on making serious trouble for HMG, gave an example of why the British state is … Read more
