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View from Bridge 89

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The times they might be a-changin’ One day in July I was reading ‘CIA has a long history of empowering monsters’ by the editor of Covert Action Magazine, Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, […]

The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories about the JFK Assassination by Sara Peterson and K. W. Zachry

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Texas School Book Depository. He was then supposed to leave immediately and rendezvous with agents who would help him escape to Mexico while a retaliatory invasion of Cuba was complete. Oswald was also told by Hunt that President Kennedy did not know anything about the “fake assassination,” but high-ranking members of his cabinet did. […]

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8 Apr

"The author is a South African judge. His book may contain some important information. But it's so incompetently done that I abandoned it after reading just a third of its 450 pages."

Robin Ramsay, on Chris Nicholson's "Who really killed Chris Hani?"

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8 Apr

"Stalker was honest and rigorous. He was also a Catholic. It didn't take him long to conclude that there was indeed a shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland"

Simon Matthews, on Paddy Hillyard's "Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy"

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1 Apr

"As an account of the 1980 SAS operation, this is an amalgam of fact and fiction. It strikes me that it reads like a screenplay for television, which is perhaps the author's real intent."

Nick Must (@Nick_M_Baja) reviews Ben Macintyre's "The Siege"

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"Get In provides plenty of evidence of clandestine activity that deceived the Labour Party membership and produced a constitutional coup"

Colin Challen reviews "Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer" by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

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