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[…] through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent American […]

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Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent American […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (known officially as the Dodecanese campaign)3 killed off his hope of avoiding D-Day. There was, of course, a positive side to him that requires acknowledgement. He ‘read’ Hitler correctly from very early on; his defiance between May and September 1940 saved the UK and western democracy; and his opposition to the Nazi regime was […]

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] a phoney, who undercuts his own message through policies that clearly benefit the upper classes’. His personal ‘fascist inclinations’ have been long demonstrated by his ‘admiration of Hitler, his rabid expressions of racism on the infamous Central Park Five case, the promotion of birtherism, his consistent antiSemitic remarks and his sexism and misogyny’. All […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: Spandau blood Andrew Rosthorn My article in Lobster 77 (February 2019) asked whether a DNA test had really ‘solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery’, as was claimed by a group of thirteen American and Austrian researchers. 1 In response to my question, the lead author of their research paper, Dr Sherman McCall MD, PhD (Cantab), […]

Hess DNA: Round 15

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: Hess DNA: Round 151 Andrew Rosthorn On 22 January 2019, the New Scientist announced:
 Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory Founded in 1956 for ‘all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences’, the New Scientist claimed to be settling 79 years of doubt about the identity of a German pilot found […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] 22 year old, who led the way into Nancy Pelosi’s office and stole her laptop. A video of her giving the Nazi salute and pledging allegiance to Hitler later emerged. There were also a number of Republican Party officials and office holders involved as well. Doug Mastriano, a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate […]

Rudolf Hess: Truth at last: The untold story of the Deputy Fuhrer’s flight to Scotland in 1941 by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] many grew up with, and I reckon still prevails widely, is that Hess was slightly unbalanced and his flight was a quixotic adventure to regain favour with Hitler as well as to bring an unlikely peace offer to Britain. As others have done, the authors quickly demolish this argument – which was the propaganda […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] 22 year old, who led the way into Nancy Pelosi’s office and stole her laptop. A video of her giving the Nazi salute and pledging allegiance to Hitler later emerged. There were also a number of Republican Party officials and office holders involved as well. Doug Mastriano, a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate […]

Yockey: A Fascist Odyssey by Kerry Bolton

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] any deeper examination of Yockey’s convoluted relationship to Spengler, who dismissed Judaism (along with Spengler saw Mussolini as the embodiment of the coming ‘Caesarism’, but he viewed Hitler with disdain. 11 In so doing, Bolton seemingly downplays the possibility that the Italian interpretation of fascism that stressed its ‘spiritual’ side, may have affected Yockey […]

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