Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] CIA now derided the whole project as a ‘scam’ and a ‘bunch of hocus-pocus’. Even Azzam, the DEA’s Task Force representative, thought it ‘stunk’.(34) But this obvious fraud did not deter North from playing the long odds in Lebanon with the Druze informant. In a June 7, 1985 memorandum to Robert MacFarlane, North advised […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] the USA against Venezuela in March – terrorists and drugs and nukes – reported straight by most of the major media, has been deconstructed into the crude fraud it always looked like.(12) Reading the original stories you can almost hear the dialogue in some office in Washington: ‘Hey, our media bought it in Iraq, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] “the road-kill of history”‘. That from a descendent of slaves! Beyond parody A story in The Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2002, ‘Bush Anti-Corruption Chief Accused of Account Fraud’ began: ‘President Bush’s efforts to clean up corporate America were dealt an embarrassing blow last night when the man charged with leading his new anti-corruption task […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] I distrust any and all stories and conclusions that have been conveyed. I hope you will entertain no further doubts about my views.’ Shapiro says Oeschler a fraud I had already contacted retired RADM Shapiro, former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) on 3 August 1991. Asked if he had ever met […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible….Every detail and nuance are accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi’s irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should ever happen again.’ Blair himself was at pains to add: […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] coterie. The values they espouse and their conduct reflect the world that New Labour inhabits and has, in part, created. Mills has been investigated by the Serious Fraud Office; and his sister-in-law Dame Barbara Mills was head of this office until just prior to his investigation. Mills was for many years an adviser to […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] in a British inner city. This is not so far-fetched. No-go areas between Muslim, Sikh and poor white gangster enclaves are a real security concern because drugs, fraud and people trafficking creates an economic base for a black economy dominated by gangsters, supported by electoral fraud and the will to violence necessary to enforce […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the take-over struggle between Guinness and Distillers. His obituarist in The Independent 15 January 2001, commented that this was ‘on the margins of City practice’. A basic fraud, but on the margins, eh? Ever wonder why private capital wants to get involved with the Private Finance Initiative (PFI)? The Guardian story ‘Billions lost in […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] but of his more recent beliefs.(8) Presidential Election theft 2004 Meanwhile, still barely reported by the major media on either side of the Atlantic, the evidence of fraud in the 2004 American Presidential election continues to grow. And never mind all the stuff from websites like blackbox: we now have reports from Senator Conyer […]