Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] a 3-man team and probably stolen in a raid on the Irish Reserve Army barracks at Midleton, Co Cork in 1970. This deadly water-cooled weapon was partly hidden under an old sack. Stanley moved the sack, laid out his handkerchief and expertly stripped the weapon into its parts. It looked as though he could […]

Last post for Oswald

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] served with a subpoena. This proves to be the key to understanding a substantial part of this episode. The FBI’s mail interception program had to be kept hidden (in fact it did not come to light until the 1970s); and doing so meant that the fact that the mis-addressed Nixie parcel had almost been […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Hybrid warfare So-called ‘Havana syndrome’ (discussed below), the Russian assault on over 1000 US overseas diplomatic personnel, using sound or electromagnetic radiation (almost certainly the latter), has established that such devices work […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] in the New World Order (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000). John Lindsay Poland makes much the same point about the media in Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Duke University Press, 2003) p. 122. That said, there were many important exceptions, and I am grateful to the diligent […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* ‘This is not a nothing-burger . . .’ . . . was Jefferson Morley’s initial reaction to the JFK documents recently declassified.1 Morley was referring to the revelation that head of CIA […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia — with ‘collateral damage’ in the US itself. Much more needs to be said about this war since it remains largely hidden in the swamp of deniability. Finally there was the fourth Vietnam War: the unrelenting hostility combined with all the available systemic weapons deployed since 1975 in […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] meaningful category. Even when caught in the lie they can try to ride it out. What his memoir demonstrates is the continued importance of going after the hidden truth, exposing the public lie, stripping away the cover-up and, moreover, the impact that the truth can still have when it is brought into the light. […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] his former colleagues follow the same pattern of omerta, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke aggressively so. The Blairs’ financial interests seem to be arranged to defy scrutiny, hidden in part behind the pious façade of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBBF). In its own self-description, ‘TBBF is a “think-do” tank, meaning that all of […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] with proprietors, without any officials involved. This was done in the guise of a ‘Government-sponsored advertising campaign’ – the cost of which has been, so far, successfully hidden away. This subsidy arrangement ‘began in April 2020 and was called “All In, All Together”’. It was budgeted ‘at £35 million for the first three months’ […]

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