Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society

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[…] . . terrorism attributed to Muslim extremists (“Islamic terror”). It is also about the incomparably greater violence of the state, both the state in general and its hidden hand in terrorism.’ Yes, the state has used ‘incomparably greater violence’ against Muslim countries than we have experienced in the UK. But has the state’s ‘hidden […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] NATO set up underground armies of resistance, ‘stay behind’ groups, to fight the red invaders – a secret paramilitary structure, co-ordinated through NATO HQ, which was kept hidden from most of Europe’s politicians and all of Europe’s citizens. This was Gladio. After the Soviet bloc disintegrated in the early 1990s these ‘secret armies’ were […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] peddle. Before 2008, Trump did virtually no business outside the USA. This was about to change. The word went out to ‘everywhere dirty money is gained and hidden’, that Trump’s services were available to ‘shine you up’ (p. 61). As Reuters reported in March 2017, no less than 63 individuals with Russian passports or […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] born deformed and immediately baptised as Christian but unexpectedly survived the antenatal period. His noble parents are said to have pretended Thomas had died, while keeping him hidden from view in a secret room within the walls of the family seat, Glamis Castle, Scotland. Various versions of the legend describe Thomas as ‘half-man, half-frog’, […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] executed in 1944 after the plot to kill Hitler. Most of his diaries were buried in the garden of his house in Ebenhausen, near Munich. Some were hidden in Switzerland. Von Hassell wrote in January 1941 that Carl Burckhardt of the Swiss Red Cross had ‘looked me up in Geneva’. Von Hassell noted in […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Joannides, and a Cuba-related operation he ran. On this Tucker Carlson of Fox News, no less, commented: We spoke to someone who had access to the still hidden CIA documents. Person deeply familiar with what they contain. We asked this person directly. Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of JFK, and […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] crime. 6 then the memoir proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material.

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] were then forwarded to Iraq or Iran, usually funneled through Jordan or Cyprus (some shipments of propellant – falsely labelled as chocolate – were, unknown to him, hidden among consignments sent through Asil Nadir’s Unipac in North Cyprus). Exposure and shut-down But by 1986-87 the story was beginning to unravel. Astra Explosives in Kent […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material. Holt says he went […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] we look back at a time when the talk was more important than the walk, and when scruffy entrepreneurs were courted by greedy venture capitalists, their ties hidden in their pockets.’ The crash was even more severe on Wall Street, and in an ominous foretaste of what was to come, the Federal Reserve Board […]

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