Notes from the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92. Part 2

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction In the first part of this essay, in Lobster 23, after reviewing the strategies adopted by significant British fascist parties in the period, … Read more

Everything is going to change

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] outside the specialist field. His advantage is that he is looking for a much different sort of proof: simply to show the reach of the plot to kill Kennedy, and again he does it with a parallel construction. Oswald’s phone call to Raleigh, North Carolina, while in custody, becomes evidence that he was still […]

Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

See note (1) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O’Brien [of ICSA]. It wasn’t clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title – and a title to … Read more

The limits of accountability

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

We know that torture is going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by <www.cageprisoners.com> that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in … Read more

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

In 1976 Mary Ferrell discovered a curious CIA document, a telegram that had been sent from the Agency office in London to headquarters in Langley on 23 November 1963, the day after JFK was assassinated. The telegram reads as follows (blacked-out(1) matter shown by brackets, with suppositions in italic): [Paragraph deleted in its entirety] EXPRESSIONS … Read more

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] this genre appeared in the run-up to the Iraq war: ‘The army is training the American military to identify British troops so that they do not inadvertently kill them in “friendly fire” incidents in Iraq. Army sources said Britain believed its troops could be in danger because America’s identification methods were “sub-standard”… “They have […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] his elbow that he was unable to use it for any task requiring a modicum of strength. ‘ would have had to have been a contortionist to kill himself the way they claim…’(20) At the toss of a COIN The publication of a new counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine manual in 2006 (21) was seen by […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

Jane Affleck Here are a few more websites, focusing chiefly on the issue of electronic privacy which is currently being debated both in the U.S. and Europe. Thanks to those who have sent comments, and thanks for contributions to: Terry Hanstock, Ian Tresman and Tony Hollick. Comments and contributions are welcome: I can be contacted … Read more

UDA: Inside the heart of Loyalist terror

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] the 1960s, the key issues in Northern Ireland were – as they remain – class issues. This particularly applied to the issue of housing: the Lower Shan kill, in particular, experienced some of the worst housing in Europe. Contemporaneous editions of The People’s Press, edited by Billy Hull, (later of the Loyalist Association of […]

Some Notes on Occult Irrationalism and the Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] Conspiracy Tracker, published in Patterson, New Jersey, was up to issue 21 when I approached it, and its list of back issues featured these gems: ‘Did Masons kill JFK, Pope John Paul 1, Princess Grace?’ (no. 4) and ‘Discover how UFO beliefs are being manipulated to create social change — and how this ties […]

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