Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Mel Gibson’s movie Throughout the ages, the Vatican’s iconic depiction of the Crucifixion has been an example of one of PR’s most effective ‘tactics’: the freeze-framing and subsequent promotion of a single event, to dictate perception, itself a marketing tactic. (The same ‘mind control’ is apparent in marketing today, when, say, a ‘life-style’ freeze-frame is … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] second we must retain a sense of proportion. It condemned Scotland Yard for using alarmist language (‘even if true’ ) that the plot would have caused ‘mass murder on an unimaginable scale’. It is the job of journalists and terrorists to engage in hyperbole (it said), not the police. This pragmatic response will not […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Rodney Stich Diablo Western Press, USA, 1994 The first thing to be said is that this is a huge (650 pages), fascinating book; and I recommend it. It is really three stories interwoven. The first section describes the author’s experience of trying to alert the American civil aviation industry, then the politicians and then the … Read more
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the lay … Read more
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] carried out by the SAS and other special units in Northern Ireland (and Gibralter). Without a state of war, setting an ambush is just a conspiracy to murder. No declaration of war means killings are legally problematic unless certain special circumstances pertain. Hence, finally, the endless, laughable courtroom accounts — usually at inquests — […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] use green ink myself, and I’m fairly sceptical about most of the areas I’ve just mentioned although I never did understand what was so loonish about the murder of Hilda Murrell. Having said that, I don’t believe it’s possible to draw a firm line between conspiracy theory and parapolitics. According to the ‘Louie, Louie’ […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] member of the coterie now gathered around the bloody foreign policies of America’s resurgent right-wing. All of them, like Crozier, are apologists, directly or indirectly, for mass murder in the name of “freedom” and “democracy” in places like Chile, El Salvador and Guatemala. It is, of course, possible that Crozier is a wonderful chap, […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] her down (after the publication of this book) and, unannounced, turned up at her front door. Last November she was extradited to Germany to face conspiracy to murder charges arising from the hijack, but not before Davies had reportedly sewn up a deal for a book and film in collaboration with her. According to […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] influence. Throughout October and November 1942 talks between various emissaries were held on how best to move this forward. News of this reached Stalin who ordered the murder of von Papen, delegating this to a team of Bulgarian assassins, who blew themselves up in the process, leaving von Papen unharmed. In the meantime British […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B 25.2.1887 … Read more