The View from the Bridge

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[…] of a tiny handful of people employed by the American state who did not accept the official verdict that Oswald dunnit alone. In a recent essay on fraud in the medical evidence he wrote this: The brain images in the official collection show damage that appears generally consistent with a shot from behind, and […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] thrown his reputation away by celebrating Boris Johnson of all people. And this at a time when more and more people are recognising Johnson for the enormous fraud that he is, that nothing he says can be relied upon and that his government is wholly incompetent. We can be confident that once his electoral […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] peace loving – war making; and replete with crime, double standards and hypocrisy in the ‘too big to fail and too big to jail’ systemic world financial fraud, and so on. Its ideological cover is wearing increasingly thin. The U.S. is fast becoming an ideological phantom! And the Orwellian doublethink laden in U.S. ruling […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and had first-hand experience of the last year or two of Ward’s life as the Profumo Affair unfolded. I followed his postings and thought he was a fraud. He revealed nothing that couldn’t have been gathered from existing books and articles. He was teasing his readers, beckoning them with as yet unspoken secret knowledge, […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] assassination, and how his purchase was meant to have protected him, remain unclear.) There is also plenty on organised crime, in particular the wave of tax evasion, fraud and murders that accompanied the ‘Aluminum Wars’. So closely packed with mega miscreants is this section that it reads like a sort of X-Factor for Bond […]

Money laundering in British football

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] eligibility to continue as a director of a football club playing in the English Football League of his recent conviction in Kyrgzstan for money laundering offences and fraud. 2. I am instructed that my clients have recently been told by the English Football League’s in-house solicitor that the League has now decided that Mr. […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] what had gone on were swiftly crushed on government orders: Matrix Churchill’s directors were arrested; Gerald James was hounded and threatened by the police; and the Serious Fraud Office and HM Customs began to raid and threaten companies associated with the project. However not all the Thatcher government secrets disappeared into the black hole […]

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Dirty Politics Peter Geoghegan London: Head of Zeus, 2020, £8.99 Colin Challen Ever since the birth of ‘democracy’ it has been for sale. Influence pedlars, bribery, blackmail, fraud, honours touting – these are all as common as the ballot box. A whole library has been written about these less savoury approaches to power; and […]

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