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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine Scott Newton Westplaining The Russo-Ukraine war has become a focus of intense study on the part of mainstream and social media, academics and the twitter commentariat. Much of this has depicted the struggle as a clear case of good (Ukraine) versus bad (Russia). Those who have not accepted […]

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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 161-166, and Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974 ) pp. 655-657. 2 The Committee claimed 800,000 members. Prominent supporters included future Presidents John F Kennedy and Gerald Ford and the movement’s best known spokesperson was Charles Lindbergh. 3 That Germany declared war on the US, rather than the US declaring war […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] after Churchill supposedly ended any such activities – Butler asked Kenneth de Courcy to sound out possible peace terms with Germany, and to use US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy to establish them. While this was being pursued, Butler carried on his quest to end the UK’s involvement in the war. On 17 June 1940, the […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the innocent delight in […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 1984) is stark in its criticism of the situation: ‘Amnesty International was concerned about reports of 32 See . 33 Jeremy Trevaskis is the son of Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, who had been Britain’s High Commissioner for Aden from 1963 to 1965. It would seem that Trevaskis Jnr. is still in the inteligence world, as […]

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