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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 43) Summer 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 43 Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence How MI6 and the CIA were involved in the death of Princess Diana Jon King and John Beveridge New York: SPI Books, 2002, £18.95 Terry Hanstock In the five years since the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, interest in Diana herself may have waned, (1) but the circumstances surrounding her death still prompt the occasional publication. Published by New York-based SPI Books, King and Beveridge's Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence has received little publicity over here. I've been unable to trace any reviews ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-38.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 42) Winter 2001/2 Last| Contents| Next Issue 42 The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence Richard J. Aldrich London: John Murray, 2001, £25 Another huge book, 645 pages of text and 70 pages of index, bibliographies and notes. How do you review something this size? I simply don't know. Short of doing a London Review of Books-sized job and working through it chapter by chapter, all I can really do is give a hint as to what's in it. It has had excellent reviews in the broadsheets and they have all been deserved. This is a tremendous piece ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-34a.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 35) Summer 1998 Last| Contents| Next Issue 35 Hidden Agendas John Pilger Vintage Books, London,1998, £8.99 pb As one of the few serious radicals in this country to whom the mass media pay any attention, Pilger is important. This is a collection of essays, a few already published but most written for this book. We are back in what is recognisably Pilgerland: the corruptions of the mass media; the ideologists of and apologists for Anglo-American imperialism- and its victims; memories of the old, pre-Murdoch Fleet Street; examples of popular resistance to imperialism and globalisation. Pilger is Noam Chomsky via the Daily Mirror ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-17.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last| Contents| Next Issue 38 One Boggis-Rolfe or two? Philby: The Hidden Years Morris Riley Janus Publishing, London, 1999, £9.95 pb John Burnes There are almost as many Philbys as there are readers. His current reputation is as thin as the biographies are fat. Is there room on the shelf for yet another Philby book? Perhaps for a slim one. Amidst legal difficulties, Morris Riley has finally published his account of Philby. He tries to establish that Philby did more damage to British interests after 1951, when he was partly severed from SIS, than before, when he was an undetected ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-13.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 Bacardi- The Hidden War Hernando Calvo Ospina Translated by Stephen Wilkinson and Alasdair Holden London and Sterling,VA.: Pluto Press, 2002, pb, £10.99 Richard Alexander This is the first book to document the on-going attempt by the Bacardi company to both help overthrow the Fidelista Cuban Government and sabotage the commercial interests of competing, Cuban-sourced, rum companies. It also documents the intertwining of the exile Cuban financial interests, including Mafioso and former dictator Batista's henchmen with right – wing US politicians, in particular in Florida, home to many Cuban exiles. Throughout the period following Castro's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-37a.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 37) Sumer 1999 Last| Contents| Next Issue 37 Philby: The Hidden Years Morris Riley Janus Publishing, London, 1999, £9.95 pb I know occasional Lobster contributor Morris Riley has waited a long time and overcome legal obstacles to get this out but I have to say this isn't very good. The 'hidden years' in the title refers to the years Philby spent in Beirut, parked there by SIS. Thus we get short chapters on the overthrow of the Mossadeq government in Iran (which occurred before Philby arrived in Beirut); the curious 'invasion' of Lebanon by the US in 1958, in which, according to Riley ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 52 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-20.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 36) Winter 1998/9 Last| Contents| Next Issue 36 The view from the bridge Lost plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish his 1500 word letter but not without comment. Back came the reply that my review 'was not merely mean-minded in the extreme, it was a gross misrepresentation, and with an agenda' (I confess that I am still in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-06.htm
... . But Larry O'Hara is not a fascist, despite Searchlight's attempts to portray him as somehow sympathetic to them. Witches are sometimes real but...To some extent the kind of witch-hunting in which Searchlight (and others) engage is rational because, on both left and right there have been, and still are, groups who have hidden agendas; who do wish to penetrate and manipulate. In the political sense, witches are sometimes real. But the legitimate checking of the credentials and political affiliations of political opponents can become a kind of ideological tick, a reflex with which individuals are automatically contaminated by identification with the political opposition. A recent example is the description 'right-wing ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 47 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-09.htm
... levels of the 1980 Reagan Campaign gave to the dreaded possibility that Carter might bring the 52 hostages home before the election, and win due to a last-minute gratitude vote. As early as March 1980, Richard Wirthlin, Reagan's pollster, had determined that an absolute condition of a Reagan victory was that an "October Surprise" not happen (Hidden Power, by Roland Perry, pp. 123 and 124). Using the Campaign's sophisticated computerised polling forecasting system called PINS, he had calculated that Carter would pick up 5-6 extra percentage points if he brought the hostages home at any time before the election, and a whopping 10 percentage points- for a dreaded sure victory- if ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 54) Winter 2007/8 Last| Contents| Next Issue 54 Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20 Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot's JFK is a complex figure and while a politician, with all that entails about strategies and the primacy of electoral considerations, he was also (by American standards) a left-leaning Democrat who thought it might be possible to diminish if ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-43.htm
