The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this point, actually announced when Radio Atlanta started broadcasting in May 1964, that it was intended to be ‘the last bastion of freedom if the country went Communist.’ This could only have been an allusion to the possibility that the general election that was due in late 1964 would result in a Labour government […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a very good 25 page paper, ‘Zersetzen: Some Precedents’.37 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 […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a CIA-backed union in France in the 1940s and then for the CIA’s Radio Free Europe. In the late 1950s he began working with the reformist, anti- Communist democrat José Figueres in Costa Rica. By the early 1960s, with funding from the Parvin Foundation and another CIA conduit, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Volman […]

Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this penetration see, for example, false flags to deliver the material. This is also a case study of the US response to economic nationalism. Fidel was no communist when he arrived. Castro offered reasonable compensation for the US-owned assets he wanted to nationalise but the Americans refused to consider that. Instead they began economic […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] because the older Dulles brother dies two-thirds of the way through the book. But he gamely calls Allen to his bedside in order to deliver rousing anti- communist words, urging his brother to not only keep up the fight but redouble his soon-to-be-solo efforts. From Allen’s furtive scuttlings around post-war Europe, David Talbot (former […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘a strike-breaking force that included all sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and The […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘Maisky and Rab were closeted together for nearly two hours!’ (3 October 1940) and concluded with ‘Rab had a long conference with Maisky this afternoon; the filthy communist was rude, pessimistic and obstructive’. (27 November 1940) What were they discussing? Channon doesn’t say. He must have known, Zoia de Stoeckl and her husband Alfons […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been forgotten. The Soviet ‘threat’ in the post-war years was […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] settler and Zionist propagandist. His most recent book, Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel, published in April 2021. This focuses on the imminent threat of Communist revolution in the USA, which is already underway, spearheaded by the Democrats. Once again, the Left are condemned as the most dangerous anti-Semites, financed inevitably by […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] 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 […]

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