Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] today being allowed to try and take this country down the same road. It will without doubt become the voice of the British Far Right once a Labour government – even a right-of-centre Starmer government – is in power. 2 2 election. (p. 107) He writes about a number of these militia groups, but […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – were saved by billions in drug money in 2008? Does the fact that Japan exploited both Korea and Vietnam to provide cheap food for its industrial labour force have any bearing on the US decision to invade those countries when its official Asia policy was to rebuild Japan as an Asian platform for […]

The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] critical of senior political and legal figures in Scotland while paying tribute to those north and south of the border who offered strong practical support, including veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell and emeritus law professor Robert Black of Edinburgh University. The Lockerbie Bombing lacks an index but is well footnoted in support of a […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments. And if you haven’t already read them, let me recommend two of Hersh’s other books, his account of Jack Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot, […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . 17 Powers (see note 7) p. 189. The ‘four’ to which Powers refers to here are his possible suspects in JFK’s assassination: ‘organised crime and crooked labour unions’, ‘Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro’ and ‘Castro himself’. 18 19 whom were intelligence assets of some kind, and that Oswald himself was some kind of […]

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] pursued two consistent foreign policy principles since the French Revolution. The first is to control the seas and the access to cheap (or free) raw materials (including labour) throughout the world. The second has been to keep Europe divided against itself both to assure access to its markets and to weaken potential imperial competitors. […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been deriding only a few days, let alone weeks, earlier. In a way their experience was a more vivid, concentrated and dramatic version of what happened to Labour after Neil Kinnock embraced the liberal rather than the social-democratic path to ‘modernisation’ after 1987. Maybe the result of the 1979 election was the watershed here […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] taken seriously. This investigative breakthrough led to a short-term career working on Channel 4 news items and an unsuccessful attempt to influence the left wing of the Labour Party. However, since 1988 Ramsay’s been back in Hull, publishing Lobster as a one-man band, writing books and nipping at the heels of the high and […]

PERFIDIOUS ALBION: Britain and the Spanish Civil War

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] LangdonO’Donnell, a Sinn Fein TD for Donegal in the 1920s, later published Salud! An Irishman in Spain (1937). 2 2 Davies, a News Chronicle correspondent and former Labour parliamentary candidate, and Geoffrey Brereton, later the author of Inside Spain (1938). The clue to Companys’ martyrdom at the hands of Chilton, King and Hankey was […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] book on the work of the 9/11 Commission. Another one, impressive in another way, is Paul Thompson. His 9/11 History Commons timeline is the product of enormous labour 6 and his four-part interview appropriately wraps up the Gold compilation. In offering us chapter-by-chapter research links for those wishing to dig deeper, Gold encourages others […]

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