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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] range of personalities but in prominent positions are Andrei Kostin, formerly in ‘diplomatic service’ at the USSR embassy in London 1985-1990, during which time he presumably k new Alexander Lebedev the current proprietor of The Evening Standard and The Independent, Vasily Titor, who ‘worked in the President’s office’ in the ‘90s and Gennadiy Melikyan, […]

Our Fight for Democracy: A History of Democracy in the United Kingdom by John Strafford

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[…] Britain’s evolution of democracy such as the Magna Carta, The Great Reform Act, votes for women and so on, and always seems to come up with something new. It’s a critical history and eschews the congratulatory ‘how wonderful!’ approach of many writers on the subject. Let’s now examine a couple of chapters that discuss […]

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