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Lobster Issue

[…] Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 30 August, 2018 or . 18 For an example of this, see ‘National Enquirer owner admits to “catch and kill” payment to ex-Playmate’ at or . 19 Infamous, as Press Secretary, for holding zero press conferences. See (e.g.) ‘Press Secretary Who Never Held Briefing Leaving Her […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] in these columns because I have nothing to offer which others don’t have. It has always seemed obvious to me that the US state would destroy – kill, imprison – Assange, one way or another. Pour encourager les autres.50 Recently the appearance of an excellent big piece by Andrew Cockburn, ‘How the media failed […]

Malcolm Kennedy (1946-2013)

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] arrested for being drunk. Middle-aged and unfit, Kennedy had no previous history of violence but according to the police he had woken from his drunken stupor to kill a man he had never met. Kennedy claimed he had been woken up by a struggle in the cell between three officers and the dead man […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] British intelligence service. Of one thing we can be certain: it was Dennis Robertson who moved Polly Peck funds from Britain to Cyprus.’ Postscript: a licence to kill? In 2009, the BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera 3 Elizabeth Forsyth says: ‘I must make one matter clear, I was instrumental in handing documentation which I […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Union had no aggressive military intent and had developed its nuclear arsenal in response to NATO’s. The Russia of today is an aggressive, violent, kleptocracy, willing to kill tens of thousands of people – including its own citizens – in pursuit of geopolitical ends and the personal wealth of its leaders. Russiagate ‘Russiagate’ centres […]

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