View from the bridge

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[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.31 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later Under the subhead Labour and the Israel Lobby at 29 ‘Dark Arts Dispatch: SW1 is a ‘safe space’ for lobbyists’ […]

View from the bridge

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[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.23 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later claimed that he had made tape recordings of his conversations with various people involved and that it was the threat […]

View from the bridge

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[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.10 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later claimed that he had made tape recordings of his conversations with various people involved and that it was the threat […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Labour Party, still seeking to recover from UKIP May local election successes following the jailing of the town’s former MP Denis MacShane. Ahead of his sentence for fraud at the Old Bailey, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman was one of a cavalcade of friends attesting to MacShane’s good character. Another old pal of the […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] managed effectively — profitably — measurement and reporting systems were borrowed from the leading edge of management and organisational theory. General William Westmoreland was discredited for ‘accounting fraud’ while waging the military side of the campaign.24 However such fraud was inherent in the overall strategy, both covert and overt. As there were not two […]

Secret Life of Uri Geller:CIA masterspy? by Jonathan Margolis

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Geller by Margolis. The first, in 1998, was a biography, Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? Writing that, Margolis began as a sceptic – assuming Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended up accepting that he wasn’t. This is in part a rehash of that with some new material added, the intelligence stuff – […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was jailed in 1996 for laundering £400,000 for Nadir but freed on appeal a year later. Nadir had fled to northern Cyprus in 1993 after a Serious Fraud Office raid on Polly Peck in 1990 collapsed its share price. He lived in exile for 17 years before returning to Britain in 2010 to ‘clear […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] dictum becomes this: There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits. Fraud and deception are entirely acceptable. Just don’t get caught. To cite the obvious recent examples: car-making companies fabricating their exhaust figures,108 Boeing trying to influence The […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – derived […]

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