See also: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) In Lobster 25 my study of the National Front (NF) ended at the start of 1986, when, despite storm clouds on the horizon, the NF was the largest, most visible, and … 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
William Engdahl London: Pluto, 2004, £15.99, p/b Google the author and you will find him listed as a senior member of the Lyndon LaRouche org in 1998, European Economic Editor of Executive Intelligence Review.([16]) Although I have been told by his publisher that he is no longer with LaRouche, the book’s first edition was … Read more
Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in the … 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 Credit where credit is due Like many other small magazines, Lobster would probably not exist were it not for Central Books, who have been distributing Lobster since issue 16, generating that bit of extra sales revenue to help keep this curious enterprise afloat. To … 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
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
Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack London: Penguin, 2004, £12.99, p/b Henry McDonald’s highly readable recent book with Jim Cusack on the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is everything that other recent offerings on the subject were not. On the one hand, it avoids the kind of borderline homo-erotic sensationalism, in which the atrocities of self-serving … 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
