The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] working on, The Big Steal, apparently dealt with the US invasion of Panama – during which a lot of murky stuff is alleged to have taken place: new weapons tested, unreported large-scale slaughter of Panamanians, and a multi-million dollar theft by US personnel. This last item may have been the central subject matter of […]

Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to autumn lockdown.2 The authors write: ‘The dominating image is now of another Dickens character. “Something will turn up,’ says Wilkins Micawber. But it doesn’t. There are new graphs that show numbers of infections rising higher and higher. And deaths.’ What does eventually turn up after a cancelled Christmas and yet another lockdown is […]

David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and a half days work. He seemed to be the classic Blair clone, busy enriching himself while supposedly representing a poor working class area, creating that interesting New Labour phenomenon whereby the local Labour MP is one of the richest people in the constituency. And now here he was, giving it all up. Admittedly, […]

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[…] via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by a real assassination attempt, which was done in the knowledge that the existence of the phoney CIA attempt would ensure that everything was covered-up. Given Lansdale’s track record […]

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[…] via the role of public Castro-sympathiser Lee Harvey Oswald. This would provide the pretext for US action – another invasion perhaps. This was piggy-backed upon by a real assassination attempt, which was done in the knowledge that the existence of the phoney CIA attempt would ensure that everything was covered-up. Given Lansdale’s track record […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] malign roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment. When I then mentioned his critical book on New Labour spin doctor and ‘dodgy dossier’ man Alastair Campbell, his pamphlet and TV documentary on the power of the Israeli lobby, his principled resignation from The […]

Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] CSIS. 1 2 Is it possible that CSIS wanted someone who wouldn’t rock the boat? CSIS’s occasional abuse of innocent citizens with Stasi-style tactics is not a new story in Canada. Nor, regrettably, is the SIRC’s propensity to whitewash CSIS. CSIS and its terror tactics Years ago a former CSIS officer, W. J. Baltruweit, […]

The book of Trespass by Nick Hayes

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] right to roam that sits alongside property rights; but the freedom to roam and camp is enjoyed across the Nordic, Baltic and central European countries. The author notes all this more in sorrow than in anger and quotes Winston Churchill approvingly : It is not the individual I attack; it is the system. It […]

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