The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] America is always right, well-intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. “Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy.” If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state running joint […]

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[…] was low on powder – perhaps a mistake in reloading. But Chauncey Holt offered another explanation. Some months before the assassination, his unit was tasked by the CIA to produce some smooth bore rifles which would take a cartridge already fired through the MannlicherCarcano. Such a smooth bore round would have little power. The […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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Contents Lobster 58 Unless otherwise stated, reviews below are by Robin Ramsay. Books Climbing the Bookshelves Shirley Williams London: Virago, 2009, £20 Tom Easton I learned of this autobiography through catching the husky tones of Baroness Williams reading from its closing chapter on Radio 4. She was warning of the dangers of being ruled by […]

Shirley Williams

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Shirley Williams London: Virago, 2009, £20 Tom Easton I learned of this autobiography through catching the husky tones of Baroness Williams reading from its closing chapter on Radio 4. She was warning of the dangers of being ruled by privileged young career politicians who ‘know no life outside politics’. Had I been too harsh in […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis Garrick Alder It has already been proven in court that the 1968 assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was the result of a conspiracy involving elements of the US Federal Government.1 This essay is not going to re-hash the work that went into […]

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of 1960, I was the focal-point officer assigned by the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]

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