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 […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] then aged 40, who had returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam disillusioned and disgusted with his nation’s ‘bloody, hopeless, uncompelled, and surely immoral prolongation mass murder.’ Ellsberg declared: ‘I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] a retired high court judge, who conducted an independent review of the Met’s handling of ‘non-recent sexual offence investigations’, particularly a two year child sex abuse and murder inquiry, Operation Midland, that closed down in 2016 without any charges or convictions. Alison Levitt, former principal legal advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] recent decades very much a minority position among European Jews.”   “it is an internalisation of gentile anti-Semitism, with which it has collaborated, including in the mass murder of Jews, such as in the Holocaust, by real anti-Semites.”   “far from being a pro-Jewish stance, Zionism in the 19th and early 20th centuries was […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] essay cited in note 17. 22 Once again we owe this to the incredibly assiduous John Simkin. See 23 And this may also explain (a) Mary Meyer’s murder and (b) the intense interest of James Angleton in her diary, which he found and suppressed. 24 25 26 On Meyer’s anti-communism see . p. 124 […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] months after Blair was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the […]

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