Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] should have been enough to avoid this entanglement. What we have to deal with in both Afghanistan and Iraq is American hubris, something into which Tony Blair’s New Labour government wholly and disastrously bought. One criticism of the book is Farrell’s readiness to sometimes accept official sophistries at face value. So, we are seriously […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists 1968-1980 (Zero Books, 2022). 1 1 There was a dramatic move from the Old Left to a more disparate New Left. The book is very much a celebration of resistance and its sound track. The FBI had never confined their activities to the surveillance of the […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] politicians responsible have by and large prospered in retirement; unless, that is, like Geoff Hoon and Jack Straw, their personal venality became a public scandal. Sarah Chayes’ new book, Thieves of State, which recounts her part in the fight against corruption in Afghanistan, will go some way towards remedying this, although I suspect that […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: A Thorn in Their Side The Hilda Murrell murder Robert Green with Kate Dewes New Zealand: Rata Books, 2011; 210 pp., index, photographs, p/b, 40 NZ dollars O nce upon a time I used to know something about the Hilda Murrell case. At any rate, a piece about it without an author, therefore by […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] compromised by their readiness to ‘render’ terrorism suspects to Syria for interrogation. In September 2002, the unfortunate Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, was kidnapped during a stopover in New York and flown to Syria where he was ‘allegedly tortured for almost a year but later declared innocent of any terrorist connection’. We can safely remove […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1956 he was presenting radio shows in Denmark and later wrote guide books for students studying abroad. In 1958 he quit Denmark and travelled via London to New York. Roberts points out that Shinkfield was a fluent speaker of Danish and Norwegian. He could not have learned these at school (they weren’t on the […]

A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] dozen publications touting the James Files story. Let’s take just one of them: Wim Dankbaar’s Files on JFK: Interviews with Confessed Assassin James E. Files, and More New Evidence of the Conspiracy that Killed JFK (published in 2008). From this, 4 The Sun-Journal (Lewistone, Maine) 29 September 1994. See or . 5 6 See […]

The Brexit impasse

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] unrestricted immigration) from EU states into the UK, and (2): subjection to the rulings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The May government therefore sought a new relationship with the EU. This has never been set out with clarity but appears to involve ‘access to the single market’ without any obligations. The government […]

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