The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] conversation to be found on Global Research.39 The most startling claim there is this about James Earl Ray’s escape from prison a year or so before King’s murder. William Pepper: ‘Yes, that was arranged. J Edgar Hoover sent $25,000 into Memphis with Clyde Tolson, his number 2. Tolson was always an intermediary. . .intermediary […]

Newsinger on Patel

Lobster Issue

[…] their incompetence ‘Chairman Mark Milley and Centcom Commander Kenneth Mackenzie used a drone to execute seven children and thirteen innocent Afghan civilians. That’s not America. We don’t murder innocent children to cover our political asses’. (pp. 159, 163, 166). This suggests an astonishing ignorance of US conduct across much of the world over the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] was coming from; perhaps he had always been a hatchet-man for the hard right of the Conservative Party? I decided to reread his tremendous Blind Eye to Murder, published back in 1981, and actually bought a second hand copy. It only served to remind me of what he had once been before his sad […]

lob65-pope-francis

Lobster Issue

[…] or celebrities: i.e. no recognisable brand. As importantly, backed by the rise of South America, it gives global Christianity an economic and political power base that challenges murder emanating from minute pockets of some Muslim communities – while accelerating and embracing dialogue with Islam in general whose only figureheads in the West happen to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.54 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

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