Spectre In the last Lobster 35 I reported on the new anti-EU magazine Spectre and wondered about its political orientation. In response, the editor, Steve McGiffen, sent an exemplary piece of candour from which here are some extracts. ‘….. Our original statement, sent out very widely, made it clear that we are minimalist to a … Read more
[…] gun-running and – the holy grail – nuclear material smuggling. A ‘senior police officer’ was quoted in the Observer, 6 November 1994: ‘It’s very easy to present drugs and organised crime as a threat to national security particularly because of Eastern Europe. There the threat of armoured divisions has been replaced by the threat […]
[…] on Twitter About the publisher Privacy Policy Sample articles 9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant, by Peter Dale Scott (2006) The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11, by Peter Dale Scott (2005) Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society, by Robin Ramsay, from Lobster 41 […]
Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and ‘the boys’ are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler and, … Read more
[…] French Public Prosecutor’s Report. As with the circumstances of the crash, however, there are a number of grey areas and issues that still remain unresolved. Alcohol and drugs – the lethal cocktail The immediate cause of the crash has been blamed on Henri Paul’s drunk and drugged condition, although video footage from the Ritz’s […]
Intelligence and National Security Started in 1986, Intelligence and National Security is co-edited by Christopher Andrew and Michael Handel, and is the first British academic journal devoted to the area. I’ve seen 3 issues and while the standard of writing and research is extremely high from contributors like Lawrence Freedman, M.R.D.Foot and Bradley Smith, the … Read more
[…] But most OTOers are Bohemians who associate the political right with fundamentalist Christians and other cultural conservatives. They also don’t worship Satan, or rape children, or deal drugs, or have much money. Some of them do participate in the occasional orgy, but you shouldn’t picture anything like that scene in Eyes Wide Shut – […]
[…] shortly, turning into a war between those who support the UDA and those who follow the UVF and are taking a strong line against the politics of drugs being brought into the mainland by Charlie and his crew.’ Evidence for this? The word of ‘seasoned observers’, ‘inside sources’ and ‘those in the know’. Must […]
[…] by Kenn Thomas of Steamshovel and shares much of its subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who […]
[…] thoroughly competent, even creative ways. Needing something to justify the budget, MI6 picked the international drug trade. Far as I know, since MI6 joined the ‘war against drugs’ the price of cocaine and heroin in the UK at street level has halved: it is now cheaper to get off your face, as they say […]
