The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame Jefferson Morley takes this nonsense apart in great detail at . 39 […]

Last post for Oswald

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] place, and at whose behest? And most importantly, why was Oswald deliberately leaving clues that not only incriminated himself but explained how he had prepared for the murder of which he was eventually accused? For the answers to these questions we have to retrace the tracks left by Oswald as he and his mail […]

The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] bad penny.2 Let’s start where our author started, with an individual 1 Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK (New York: Carroll and Graf, 205), Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination (Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2008). Jim DiEugenio slices-and-dices the […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] found murdered, in what was later proved to be a staged suicide. The serving prosecutor-general at the time opened a case on Kolomoisky in relation to the murder of Serhiy Nikitin, but found insufficient evidence to proceed. On the other hand, Kolomoisky has openly threatened the President of Georgia, telling one journalist during an […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.15 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the murder of its Athens station chief, Richard Welch, in 1975 to discredit not only defecting CIA officer Philip Agee but also, more importantly, Democratic Senator Frank Church, […]

Newsinger Uproar

Lobster Issue

[…] a total sale of over two million. As Leonard observes, the fact is ‘that there was a sizeable audience in the US for a song extolling mass murder’. (pp. 224-225) Presumably this did not perturb the FBI in the slightest. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year before Europe’s imperialists plunged the world into four years of mass murder. That war alone caused some four million direct battle casualties and untold millions of non-combatant deaths in the aftermath. Despite the actual policies he pursued, Wilson […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] But he was also a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, resigning in 1975 with the rank of Captain. Wallace ‘had been dealing with a Protestant murder group and paedophile operation out of the Kincora Boys’ Home’. (p. 30). There was no ‘murder group’ at Kincora I have ever heard of and Bloom […]

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