Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think about the ‘perception management operations’ in ‘ Mind Games’ on the NATO Web site. (1) ‘Perception management includes all actions used to influence the attitudes and objective reasoning of foreign audiences and consists of […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
Brian Burkitt and Andy Mullen Congress for Democracy (www.congressfordemocracy.org.uk) 38 pages, £5 in UK This is a useful companion piece to Andy Mullen’s essay in this issue. The authors believe that whatever this government says its policy towards the euro is, it has decided to enter the euro and is ‘playing a long game…. preparing … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
Armen Victorian Vision Paperbacks, London, 1999, £9.99 With the addition of a four new essays, this books contains the writing of Armen Victorian published in Lobster since his first essay appeared in Lobster 23 in 1992 (and issues 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 32, 34 and 36). Most welcome of the … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] but the effect can be unintentionally comic: ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
Susan. L. Carruthers Leicester University Press, London and New York, 1995 £45 hb, £16.99 pb. This is an important study of British psy-war activities, and the politics thereof, since the war. Almost all of this book was new to me, though I haven’t studied anti-British insurgencies. Originally a PhD thesis, happily, in Carruthers case, this … Read more
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] and though it is generally regarded as bad form to speak ill of the dead, this is a very poor book. This is Keith’s survey of the mind control story: Cameron, Delgado, Esterbrook, Persinger, West, HAARP – all the usual names are here and given cursory treatments in short chapters. But there is also […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
John McMurtry London: Pluto Press, 2002, pb £15.99 I shouldn’t be reviewing this. I haven’t digested it properly and it is going to take some time to do so. But I don’t want to leave this for six months without promoting it. I used to try and preserve books in good condition, didn’t write […]