Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] — “a new magazine challenging media censorship’ — appeared here in the summer. The first issue included very useful pieces on the Gladio network, the CIA and drugs (the Alfred McKoy interview referred to in Lobster 21), a recent post-Gulf analysis of US foreign policy by Philip Agee etc. Extremely impressive for a first […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] link not be drawn between the many dumb decisions of a dumb ally in the wake of 9/11 and social collapse in the UK inner cities. Yet drugs and other illicit trades and the massive accumulation of capital in the hands of organised crime are absolutely central to the collapse of social order – […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Horses for courses? Labour MP Denis MacShane used the hospitality of The Observer extended by his old Oxford pal, editor Roger Alton, to proclaim the virtues of Nicolas Sarkozy and confide, a week before the second vote, that his success in the French presidential election was greatly desired in Downing Street. The prospect of a […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] Reconciliation’s (an interfaith organisation committed to nonviolence) July 1998 report on Latin America. A history of the use of chemical weapons by the US in Panama, the drugs war and human rights. The Konformist http://www.konformist.com LA-based webzine edited by Robert Sterling. Approx 4 or 5 issues a month, covering a mixture of far-out conspiracy […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] general magazine to have merged from the American radical/left since Ramparts. The January 1991 issue contained a 13 page interview with Alfred McKoy on the politics of drugs. McKoy wrote The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (Harper Row, 1972), the ground-breaking book which showed the CIA running opium for the Meo tribes they […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Colin Challen Vision Paperbacks, London, 1998, £7.99 It says something about this society of ours – and about the academics who make a living teaching what they call ‘politics’ – that this is the first book about the funding of the political party which has been in power for most of this century; and it … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] and the failure to hold the line in Afghanistan and Iraq on the other. October 20 saw important arrests in Italy of Pakistanis allegedly linked to the drugs trade routed from Afghanistan through Kosovo and Albania. () It was not a terrorist-related raid, but those arrested were allegedly radical in politics as well as […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] bridges with the Republican Party. As the Democrats became radicalised by war in Vietnam, by environmentalism and feminism, by new sexual freedom and a permissive attitude towards drugs, the Republicans gained support from social conservatives and the evangelicals began what they saw as a crusade against godless hedonism and flagrant disregard for the divine […]