Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] work related to Northern Ireland, where Starmer helped overturn Socialist Alternative, including Starmer’s contributions, can still be found online. 2 2 British soldier Lee Clegg’s conviction for murder. (Clegg and his fellow Paratroopers had shot up a car of joy-riders in West Belfast, an incident in which seventeen–year–old Martin Peake and eighteen–year–old Karen Reilly […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] especially in the US, is convinced that the persistence of slavery, genocide, and all the other elements of colonialism/imperialism in the US Empire were ‘unintentional’. The regular murder of Blacks by police in the US is not intentional. Lynching was never intentional. In a country whose official explanation for all economic injustice is the […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

The nature of the state and future challenges

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] seen as the ability to reduce all forms of power to a clear and transparent set of rules (e.g. the EU). On the In Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces To Clinton’s Columbine and beyond (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2005) 3 other there is a rebellion against the truth (that […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] tall building – are urging an independent inquiry into the Manhattan collapses?1 0 How are we to see the Bush administration’s reluctance to investigate the greatest mass murder in US history and its refusal to disclose material evidence as anything other than a suspicious, if not guilty, demeanour?1 1 How, moreover, are we to […]

Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy by Kash Pramod Patel

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Newsinger on Patel

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[…] 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 […]

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