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Ian Cameron (obituary)
[PDF file]: […] of a separate (1997) Angry Brigade volume by Tom Vague. This is the most remarkable of the book’s new items. At moments this brought Ali G to mind. Barker writes with obvious 1 2 This originally appeared in newsletter of the Kate Sharpley Library. 3 1 and very welcome sincerity that the Angry Brigade, […]
The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine
[…] threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in 1960. What happened? The authors write: ‘…..against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U2 flight […]
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The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine
[PDF file]: […] the great self-promoting, warrior chieftain and third generation mass murderer in the commission of the United States, Douglas MacArthur, are summarised for context.5 This serves to re mind the reader of the difference between the war story for public consumption and the war stories that are suppressed because they neither flatter the mass murdering […]
The view from the bridge
The View from the Bridge
[…] wrote while in prison. Ruby implies that reading the book would explain JFK’s assassination. Extracts are quoted on p. 604 of Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ The Master mind of JFK’s Assassination (Xlibris, 2010). This was reviewed in Lobster 61 at or 4 or 5 Had Monbiot gone a step further he could have mentioned […]
Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun
[PDF file]: […] simultaneously trying to appease the anti-Castro Cubans and the US military/intelligence who wanted action; wanted to manage the ‘Cuba problem’ politically with the 1964 presidential election in mind; and cool the Cold War with the Soviets. There is more that could be said and other emphases that could be made. (No doubt some of […]
Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation
[PDF file]: Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation Garrick Alder This is a sequel to ‘Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell’ in Lobster 77.1 As a US presidential candidate in 1976, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. attended a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the aim of which was to seek official disclosure of the truth about […]
All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner
[PDF file]: […] (combined with the failure to find any of the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that had been used to justify the invasion) tainted Iraq irredeemably in the public mind. Back home, the political scene is viewed through the lens less of the big parties and of ‘Westminster bubble’ stories than by telling the stories of […]