The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] 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 25 26 27 11 happened was the outcome of a diabolical Moscow plot to create a pretext for war, meaning Russian […]

View from Lob 73

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] 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.’ 65 The official line on Libya is not the only one from which Salmond has strayed. He has become a loose cannon in British politics66 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: A BALLAD OF DRUGS AND 9/11 The truth shall make you free — CIA Slogan At the First Emperor’s Tomb the Chinese People’s Republic shows you a preliminary movie in which this monument of empire is seen through the eyes of peasants who rose up in revolt and smashed the terra cotta statues we have […]

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

Lobster Issue

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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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