Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (only may) partly explain what followed. Groupie no.1 was worried by the fact that their sex had been unprotected, and by his reluctance to have an AIDS test afterwards. So she went along to the local police in order to ascertain whether he could be forced to have the test. Somehow that mushroomed into […]

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 […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

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[PDF file]: […] The first pre-assassination Oswald prints in the FBI’s files came from his 1959 Marine Corps induction (CE 635) and the second from his August 1963 arrest in New Orleans. This last set of prints was apparently not entered into evidence by the Warren Commission for some reason, and the prints obtained during the FBI’s […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

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[PDF file]: […] of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that problem in 1966 by creating an insulation layer, the Defence Sales 1 Over a hundred source notes to several of the chapters, for example. 2 It’s suggested but not demonstrated in Thatcher’s Wiki entry. In the preface the author thanks the Rowntree Trust […]

The End of Progress: How modern economics has failed us by Graeme Maxton

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] not the broader measure that seems always to register Eighties-style levels of joblessness). Yes, we were told, the old was dying in terms of work, but the new was being born in the ‘sunrise industries’ of the future. Ministers were forever lauding modestly-sized businesses with names such as Com-Vac or Micro-Digital, and even a […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

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[PDF file]: […] be for not using the existing constituency-based electoral organisation? I can think of only one, the one the author suggests: to rig the vote, if necessary. He notes that Cord Meyer was London CIA station chief at this point. Did Meyer bring ballot-rigging expertise from the CIA? This is not that implausible; but there […]

The Collapse of Globalism

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Contents Lobster 58 The Collapse of Globalism John Ralston Saul London: Atlantic Books, 2009. £9.99 Tom Easton The new afterword John Ralston Saul had added since the recession is almost worth the price of his incisive and wellwritten The Collapse of Globalism, first published four years ago. Try this, for example, on the 2008 […]

Swedish echoes

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] brother soon disappeared and all of the other people involved in the smuggling were arrested and convicted. Think of that what you will. John Gorst (Conservative MP for Hendon North), who had previously met Captain Hayward in the early 80s, made a statement in the House of Commons regarding the situation.1 In doing so, […]

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