Lobster review: Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

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A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

[PDF file]: […] concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, Robin Ramsay’s Lobster casts its net wider to encompass histories of fascism, the JFK assassination, the Lockerbie bombing and the military’s medical experiments on service personnel. What both Lobsters excel at are finding the links between apparently unrelated events, or finding the significance […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not a million miles from which is the case of Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian lecturer in Islamic Studies, being held by […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] sexual assault made against former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond have surfaced three months after Mr Salmond publicly cast doubt on the official verdict on the Lockerbie bombing.’ 70 The official line on Libya is not the only one from which Salmond has strayed. He has become a loose cannon in British politics71 […]

The CIA as Organised Crime How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] attack while clearing US Customs at Houston’s George Bush International Airport, returning from London. He was 56 and released a very controversial film debunking the US regime’s Lockerbie story. However even the official media is full of reports about espionage against ostensible friends and allies of the US regime. 6 There has been no […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything that surprised me. The best piece is a 15-page account by O’Hara of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian-backed Ukrainians did it, despite an almost complete lack of evidence, are stuck with their initial decision. And great powers do not admit their errors: think of Lockerbie, or the downing of the Iranian airliner by the USS Vincennes in 1988.2 7 Which means that if the US intelligence community does finally conclude that […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] that the US government or its corporations found objectionable or an obstacle. The two most infamous fabrications were the so-called LaBelle disco bombing in Berlin and the Lockerbie aircraft bombing. Both of these events were attributed to Libya and hence to Qaddafi without the slightest verifiable proof. Although to this day no unimpeachable evidence […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Sikorski’s wife, the former Evening Standard and Spectator journalist Anne Applebaum, was booked in 1988 to fly on the Pan Am 103 flight that came down over Lockerbie. ‘About a week before the flight, however, I postponed my trip simply in order to stay a day longer with friends in Oxford,’ she has written. […]

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