The state in politics: Wallace, Holroyd and Lobster

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

The state in politics: Wallace, Holroyd and Lobster Colin Wallace’s 1980 conviction for the manslaughter of Jonathan Lewis was quashed on 9 October 1996. Considering the size of the political iceberg beneath that little tip, with the notable exceptions of the Guardian and Channel Four News, the response of the media on mainland UK was … Read more

The True Story of the Bilderberg Group

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Daniel Estulin Waterville (Oregon): TrineDay, 2007, $24.95, p/b   To use an old word which has recently reentered my vocabulary, this is complete tosh. When it arrived I opened it at random and my eye fell on this, from a list of Bilderberg’s aims on p. 43: ‘One Socialist Welfare State. The Bilderbergers envision a … Read more

Sources. Publications etc

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more

The Great Betrayal

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

Books The Great Betrayal Nicholas Bethel (London 1984) This is either a ‘snow job’, designed to discourage further research in this area (British intelligence attempts to destabilise Soviet and communist influenced regimes), or is just a poor effort on Bethel’s part. One can’t deny that it is useful – after all, it is the first … Read more

The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

On 8 March 1985 an attempt was made to assassinate one of the founders of Hizbullah, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, by car bomb in Beirut. The attack failed in its objective, but there was some ‘collateral damage’. While Fadlallah was untouched, some eighty bystanders, men, women and children, were killed and over two hundred injured. … Read more

Profits of Peace: The Political Economy of Anglo-German Appeasement

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Scott Newton, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, £30 This is the book Newton was working on which produced the spin-off pieces published in Lobster: ‘The economic background to appeasement and the search for Anglo-German detente before and during WW2’ in Lobster 20, and ‘The Who’s Who of Appeasement’ in Lobster 22. As those essays showed, Newton … Read more

Ribbontrop Blair

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Tony Blair might be considered guilty on two of the counts for which Hitler’s Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop was executed at Nuremberg, ‘namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the … Read more

The Big Breach

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

Responsibilities, old boy The Big Breach Richard Tomlinson Cutting Edge, Edinburgh, 2000, £9.99   I found it hard to ‘see’ this because so much of its contents have been published in the media. There have been some changes – names altered – since the newspaper versions; and I am told that the original hardback version … Read more

The Internet: a strategic assessment by the US Department of Defense

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

This 29 page report, obtained by Armen Victorian, was prepared for the US Department of Defense (DoD) by the OASD (Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense) in March 1995. It describes the internet and its potential as a tool for the DoD, both for gathering and disseminating information, for psy-ops and support of unconventional … Read more

The League of Empire Loyalists and the Defenders of the American Constitution

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Kevin Coogan is the author of the study of the American fascist Francis Parker Yockey, Dreamer of the Day, reviewed in Lobster 39. He sent me an essay primarily about the American far-right group the Defenders of the American Constitution. The essay, while fascinating, is too big (about 20 pages) for these columns. However within … Read more

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