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Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] ‘The Far Right and Their Attempt to Co-opt Progressive Forces’, ‘KKK, The Fehme and the Founding of the Nazi Party’, and items on AIDS, WACL, CIA and drugs /mind control, assassinations etc etc. (This is roughly the same agenda as the late Mae Brussel but more intelligently handled.) They solve the problem of how […]

How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] of influencing the democratic process. (The coked-up monkeys, similarly, were a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should […]

Operation Mind Control

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

W. H. Bowart, Self-published, Tucson, Arizona, 1994. Operation Mind Control was originally published in 1978 by Dell Paperbacks. It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to … Read more

Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

DEEP BLACK: the secrets of space espionage William E. Burrows, Bantam Press, 1988 P. N. Rogers The National Reconnaissance Office is the only ‘black’ US intelligence agency remaining. Formed in 1960, the US only conceded officially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility of … Read more

You Are Being Lied To: the Disinformation guide to media distortion, historical whitewashes and cultural myths

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: ‘Oh, … Read more

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] set the stage for the much larger intervention in the Persian Gulf a year later.1 It also marked a remarkable escalation in the previously metaphorical ‘war on drugs’, by establishing Washington’s legal claim to the extraterritorial use of force to apprehend suspected drug traffickers abroad. Many accounts have chronicled the war of nerves leading […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] policies of the US government at the beginning of WWI. The demise of the FBN in 1968 coincided with an interregnum in which the so-called war on drugs was managed or mismanaged just like the war in Vietnam with which it was intricately connected. Richard Nixon’s attempt to recover US control in Southeast Asia […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] to Lobster for reviving “Transnationalised Repression”. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies (Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised backing for right-wing repressive forces, or parafascists, that operate on […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] to Porton Down, Britain’s main research centre for biological/chemical research. Dr. Sargant’s interest in the work going on there was to study the psychological implications of mind-blowing drugs such as LSD. He told me that he developed a rapport with Frank Olson during a number of subsequent visits Frank Olson made to Britain. Dr. […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] that inspired the film makes far more sense. and accurate meanings hidden in the text, but to identify some areas designed to promote misdirection and erroneous speculation. Drugs and the psychocivilised society Comment on A Clockwork Orange returns again and again to the theme of violence, that of the hooligan and that of the […]

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