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The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] US attempts to bring ‘freedom’ to Vietnam while deploying black soldiers who didn’t even have true freedom in America. Dr King also drew comparisons between America and Nazi Germany – an incendiary proposal and perhaps an unwise one, since it can only have deepened suspicion that Dr King was a crypto-communist. The transcript received […]

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14 Oct

Column extras. A US apologia (sort of) by the Council on Foreign Relations; a self-eulogy by Tony Blair; the Israel lobby again; a raspberry for Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England; more.

Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" has been updated.

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"TA reservists are officially civilians. Did Thatcher use this loophole as cover against allegations that the army was used against the miners?"

Scott Newton (@1956historian) in "Historical notes on The use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike"

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"Fritz gives a critique of misuse of the US military, done mainly (he says) on Israel's behalf, by the neocons of the early 2000s. The name that recurs most is the relatively obscure Doug Feith."

Robin Ramsay reviews Dennis Fritz's "Deadly Betrayal"

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/deadly-betrayal-the-truth-about-why-the-united-states-invaded-iraq-by-dennis-fritz/

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"A wonderful German word, Verschlimmbesserung, means to make things worse while trying to improve them. Those in charge of the British state provided a spectacular example of this."

Robin Ramsay reviews "To Catch a Spy" by Tim Tate (@TimTateBooks)

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