The killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in public view and for no apparent reason remains one of the most notorious murders of recent decades. For sixteen years there have been few signs of any serious attempts to locate and bring to justice the perpetrator of this outrage. Finally, this April, in an outstanding piece of … Read more
At 00:20 on Sunday 31 August 1997 a black Mercedes S280 carrying four people left the Ritz Hotel in central Paris. Shortly afterwards at 00:25 it crashed into the thirteenth pillar of the Concorde-Boulogne lane of the Pont d’Alma Tunnel in central Paris. The driver – Henri Paul – was killed instantly. The front passenger … Read more
Introduction What follows is an interim report about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. In so far as it has a central thesis, it is that Jones initiated the Jonestown massacre because he feared that Congressman Leo Ryan’s investigation would disgrace him. Specifically, Jones feared that Ryan and the press would uncover evidence that the … Read more
Who Killed Patrick Quinn? The Framing of Malcolm Kennedy Mark Metcalf £5 from BCM Box 3328 London WC1N 3XX Over the last few issues Lobster has carried articles about the harassment of Malcolm Kennedy by person unknown within the British state and about his so far unsuccessful attempts to use the British legal-judicial … Read more
‘I know nothing about it. I don’t want to say I didn’t at the time, but today I have no knowledge of it.’ Former US Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara on the attack on USS Liberty. ‘As with the assassination of John F. Kennedy four years earlier, the official version [of the attack on … Read more
[…] DGSE (then SDECE’s) old strong-arm branch, the 11th Shock Regiment, disbanded by De Gaulle in 1962 for its close sympathies with the OAS who had attempted to kill De Gaulle on numerous occasions. (Guardian 3 and 7 October 1985. In reality, of course, the school later reopened, its 60 saboteurs absorbed into the 11th […]
[…] lawyer Mark Zaid to say the shared addresses did not mean she and Kelly were lovers. Ms Pederson – incidentally also quoted as saying Kelly did not kill himself – gave a statement to the Thames Valley Police on the express condition that it not be supplied to Hutton, something it seems 17 other […]
A man with Friends The Third Secret: the CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s plot to kill the Pope Nigel West HarperCollins, London, 2000, £19.99 Let’s dispose of the ‘Third Secret’ nonsense. West claims that Pope John – the Polish Pope – was told the ‘third secret’ of the Fatima revelations; and that this ‘third […]
[PDF file]: How our politicians helped to kill UK manufacturing Robin Ramsay We are heading into a world economic depression – one that might be even worse than the 1930s. Because the UK is heavily dependent upon the global services economy, it will be slow to emerge from said depression. Large parts of the UK economy […]
[PDF file]: The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act Garrick Alder ‘Freedom of Information. Three harmless words. I look at those words as I write them, and feel like shaking my head till it drops off my shoulders. You idiot. You naïve, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. There is really no […]
