Miscellaneous Publications

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 […]

Tittle-tattle

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 […]

Web Update

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 […]

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 […]

Sources

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 […]

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 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

US General Accounting Office Reports

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] Gulf War participants believe that health problems arising since their return from the Gulf are caused by exposure to hazardous substances encountered there. These include diesel fuel, drugs, vaccines, pesticides and smoke from oil well fires. Some veterans believe their exposure has also resulted in reproductive problems including birth defects, infertility and miscarriages. This […]

Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b   When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. … Read more

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