Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only a […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: A Work of Camouflage Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2024, £25 h/b John Newsinger What is most interesting about this posthumous memoir by General Frank Kitson is what it does not say, exactly how little it contributes to our knowledge and […]

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[…] and being signed into Artem Iovenko, ‘The ideology and development of the Social-National Party of Ukraine, and its transformation into the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”, in 1990–2004’, in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 48, no. 2/3, 2015, p. 230. (not archived). 52 Euromaidan Press, 17 August 2014. See or . 53 20 effect by then-president […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] 15 16 Ligia Amancio ‘Trump e o pós-politicamente correcto’, Publico, 27 January 2017, p. 47 views with which they cannot agree. Nazis and the now largely defunct communist parties of what was once called the Soviet bloc are the only ones whose use of language was supposedly deceptive or simply dishonest. In what was […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] of law, and strong defence 2. To encourage strong transatlantic links between Britain, Europe, and North America 3. To assist and encourage the peoples of the former communist countries and other oppressive regimes across the world as they adopt democracy 4. To foster greater contact between Western nations and those of the Middle East […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] murders. Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti- communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Freedom. He was also cosy with the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and, to round off his catholic enthusiasms, was convinced there was a big Jewish/ Communist conspiracy. On 9 November 1963 Willie Somersett (a name straight out of James Ellroy), a professional police informant and childhood friend of Milteer, met with him […]

View from the bridge

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[…] of law, and strong defence 2. To encourage strong transatlantic links between Britain, Europe, and North America 3. To assist and encourage the peoples of the former communist countries and other oppressive regimes across the world as they adopt democracy 4. To foster greater contact between Western nations and those of the Middle East […]

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