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[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] warmly welcoming his neighbour Starmer as Labour’s new leader – ‘my wife likes his wife’ – Coren describes Corbyn as ‘an apologist for race hate at home, murder abroad and political tyranny from Damascus to the Kremlin’. Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo, Mike Berry, et al. […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] syndicate’s Asian Meyer Lansky. Captured by the Japanese after the invasion of the Philippines, Lewin ran gambling operations even in jail. He later became part of a Murder Incorporatedstyle outfit set up by top McArthur aide named General Charles Willoughby who ran Army Intelligence (G-2) during the U.S. occupation of Japan. He worked closely […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] record of what actually transpired during the Trump Presidency. In her first chapter, ‘The Burning Church’, which deals with the rioting and protests provoked by the police murder of George Floyd, she hilariously describes Trump as ‘a hard worker, generally amicable and typically good at lightening the mood’. One of her proudest moments during […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Fascists, like Rolf Gardiner, became pioneers of the nascent Green movement, promoting agricultural reform and ecological awareness. Some became involved in pro-Arab, antiZionist activism, particularly following the murder of two British sergeants by the Israeli terrorist group, Irgun, in 1947. Others, such as the Earl of Portsmouth, went to Africa after the War to […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] War, Stone describes the 1948 death of the Czech politician Jan Masaryk, who was found lying on the pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] then aged 40, who had returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam disillusioned and disgusted with his nation’s ‘bloody, hopeless, uncompelled, and surely immoral prolongation mass murder.’ Ellsberg declared: ‘I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of 2018. Until recently they have by and large maintained their silence regarding their experiences as members of the Trump administration. In the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd and of Trump’s threatening to use troops against Black Lives Matter protesters, Mattis has spoken out. The violent clearing of peaceful protesters from […]

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