Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre Nashville (US):Nelson, 2005, Distributed in the UK by New Holland Publishers, London, at £14.99, h/b RFIDs are acoming. RFIDs are radio frequency identification or identifiers, little chips which can be fixed to, implanted in, built into almost anything from paper money to human beings; and which can then be … Read more
In Lobster 19 I tried to convey some sense of a very complicated area I had come across which concerned the uses, misuses and effects of electromagnetic fields. Although not really in Lobster‘s territory (which is?) — and well beyond my technical competence — this seemed very important. If true, this is the most important … Read more
Covert Action CAIB trundles on. I haven’t always agreed with CAIB’s line. With others on the U.S. left, it used to seem reluctant to deal with the real nature of the Soviet Union. Having got to he point where America has become Amerika, many American radicals have been unable to acknowledge that the other Superpower … Read more
Who’s kidding whom? The September issue of Fortean Times carried a five page article by Robert Irving, ‘The Henry X File’, about Armen Victorian. It was a very strange article, part profile, part smear job. Armen was ‘twice reportedly seen in the back of a Soviet embassy limousine in Ottowa… rumours associated [him] with the … Read more
Tribune 21/28 August 1987 JOHN WARE is an investigative reporter, widely regarded, by his peers, as one of the best television journalists working in this country. He worked with World in Action and is now with BBC’s Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC … Read more
In the mainland UK press the bugging of a house used by Seamus Mallon, deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, was presented as (merely) another mysterious and rather inept example of ‘dirty tricks’ in Irish politics. (See eg Guardian 20th February 1984) A brief story appeared and then vanished again. But Irish … Read more
Observers of the activities of the neo-nazi Combat 18 (C18), otherwise known as the National Socialist Alliance (NSA), have been treated to some bewildering documents and allegations recently. In an attempt to clarify who is saying what, and why, I will examine the origins and initial purpose of C18, the role (if any) of alleged … Read more
… distinctive in its depth of coverage, its detailed documentation, and in the absence of the rhetoric of the radical left so prevalent in its brother publications ..” — Hayden B. Peake, The Reader’s Guide to Intelligence Periodicals (1992), pages 86-89 “It was a reference at the end of an article in an issue of … Read more
I’m not following the story closely enough to summarise developments since the last Lobster – it would be a near full-time job to do so – but there are some items of interest, not all pointing in the same direction, worth noting. Retired US Lt.-Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, quoted in this issue in the piece about … Read more
