The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the security services. They decided to use the Northern Ireland intelligence apparatus to smear Wilson and others. That was 12 years before the former MI5 officer, Peter Wright, made similar allegations. Mr Blake Knox’s depiction of me as a ‘professional fantasist’ is a contemporary example of disinformation, an attempt to discredit my initial and […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] she took the various allegations 20 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or . 21 Precisely when they discovered this isn’t clear. In his Spycatcher, Peter Wright dates it to 1956 or 7, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary which led to a big fall in the CPGB’s membership. Professor Christopher Andrew, in […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] provision in the US Constitution that the President must be a native-born citizen. 8 The most useful definition of the term ‘Establishment’ is probably found in C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956). correctness’ can so easily be appropriated throughout the outer party – that is in both the Establishment […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] deal of new detail. The CIA’s role in getting Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago published in the West is described; as is the Agency’s encounter in Paris with Richard Wright and James Baldwin. They were both initially promoted by the CIA until they noticed that the Agency’s people were only interested in their criticisms of the […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for civil rights in Vietnam 65 For example, Bob Kovach and Chelsea J. Carter, ‘U.S.-Japan deal withdraws 9,000 Marines from Okinawa’ CNN (27 April 2012) , Ann Wright, ‘Guam Resists Military Colonization’, Common Dreams (17 August 2009): ‘In 2008, the US Ambassador to Japan had to fly to Okinawa to give his apologies for […]

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[…] credibility chart as far as I am concerned. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

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[…] questions have been unanswered for almost 20 years. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The This really is a very good piece indeed. Ketcham’s writing is at . 44 A year after Ketcham, a long article appeared in […]

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[…] questions have been unanswered for almost 20 years. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The This really is a very good piece indeed. Ketcham’s writing is at . 44 A year after Ketcham, a long article appeared in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] days in the discussions of the new global elite, the oligarchs, or the 1%, is William Domhoff, the American sociologist who, following in the footsteps of C. Wright Mills, was examining their power forty years ago in books such as the 1971 The Higher Circles. Mr Domhoff, I am happy to report, is still […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Friends of ‘the Friends’ in the North W atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and […]

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