Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Sadat that he would have the full backing of the Saudi royal family if he leaned towards the US. As a result, Sadat became ‘as staunchly anti- communist as the Shah and the Saudis’.6 Midolo wanted to ask Prince Turki about ‘the so-called Safari Club, a coalition of foreign intelligence services based in Cairo […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for Cuba and that people at this party had in the past talked openly about wanting to see President Kennedy dead.’ Others at the party included the communist writer Emilio Carballido, General 10 Jose de Jesus Clark Flores, who appears elsewhere in the story allegedly giving Oswald money at the Cuban embassy, and ‘two […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] chemtrails in Lobster 64 at . ‘Zersetzen: Some Precedents’.36 Of this paper Russell writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Republican campaign against Hillary Clinton was just more of the same. Similar – and more serious – charges were made against Bill Clinton. That Clinton was a communist. In fact there are reasonably good reports that he was recruited by the CIA, while a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, to report on American students in […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] clearance, the design and construction of the Boundary Estate by the London County Council in the 1890s; the contribution to UK political debate by socialist, anarchist and communist refugees from Tsarist Russia; ‘the validity of certain socialist/Marxist postulates for contemporary society’; a re-enactment of a speech from the film WR – Mysteries of the […]

Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] used aerial bombardment in their post-1945 colonial wars. How effective was it? In Malaya, the RAF dropped 35,000 tons of bombs and claimed to have killed 700 Communist guerrillas. This number of fatalities was almost certainly inflated, but even so this means that it took 5 tons of bombs to kill one guerrilla. The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable though this may have been to anyone who had contact with the CPGB,30 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with it in the first place. Nor is it any good to pin the blame solely on General MacArthur, for egging Hoover on with false intelligence about communist infiltration of the protests. Hoover had other and better sources of information available, but chose instead to rely on someone who drew out his worst tendencies.6 […]

Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals by John Rodden

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the man, his work and his impact. He has also edited a number of books on Irving Howe and has written widely on East Germany under Communist rule and other subjects. Over the years I have learned a great deal from his writing. Consequently I was looking forward to the publication of Of […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Miracles often catalysed insurrections. In Mexico, the Virgin of Guadeloupe was considered to be a miraculous power on the side of the Mexican peasantry and preceded the communist icons as a banner for revolution. The sainthood Page 67 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 commissions of the Church had the task of integrating these ‘miracles’ and […]

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