The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate – again On the American left it is almost universally believed that the claim that Russians tried to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016 is a hoax. As I […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate – again On the American left it is almost universally believed that the claim that Russians tried to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016 is a hoax. As I […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Still in Dallas On JFKfacts is a recent note by Chad Neagle, ‘Tale of Two Defectors; One was thoroughly debriefed by the CIA. The other was accused of killing JFK.’1 Neagle points […]
[PDF file]: Lockerbie Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies Morag G. Kerr Leicester: Matador Books, £12.99, p/b www.troubador.co.uk/troubador A bout half of this book is a study of baggage-handling systems in airports. Another large chunk is about the forensic examination of the explosion and the attempt to determine where the bomb was placed in the […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. […]
[PDF file]: […] that the British had no problem whatsoever supporting Islamist rebels against a secular government! He was also involved in an abortive attempt to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. And he set up one of the first modern private military companies in 1967, Watchguard International, indicating that mercenary outfits were now once again regarded as […]
[PDF file]: […] Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice noted in 2007, this included the ‘removal of an eastern front threat for Israel.’7 7 Other observers credited the invasion with compelling Libya to abandon its WMD program, thus removing another potential strategic threat to Israel. Saddam Hussein’s demise also ended Iraqi support ‘for one of the Israeli people’s […]
[…] by the USA, the EU and NATO was accompanied by a hubristic liberal-capitalist triumphalism which poisoned and destabilised the international environment. The recent history of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria provides clear evidence of a dialectical process in which Western intervention has fuelled political instability and led to blowback in the form of Islamic […]
[PDF file]: […] On His Face Again, and Again, and Again’ at or . 101 Professor David Wrone also critiques Hersh’s JFK book at . 34 state’s covert role in Libya. This was bound to be dodged by the inquiry into the event, if only to avoid embarrassing the Americans with whom the British state (as usual) […]
[…] Frontiersmen, a part-time military Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, on York station. He didn’t mention his work with Sanderson […]
