The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

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[PDF file]: […] months after Blair was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] MI6, and it seems likely he visited Porton Down. 3 The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind’, a review of H. P. Albarelli Jr’s A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, in Lobster 59, Summer 2010. Further, Sargant’s ward sister recalls him telling tales about ‘cloak-and-dagger exploits’. […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] disinformation by omission. But the omission is only deliberate if Shenon and Sabato know the 1 ‘How the CIA came to doubt the official story of JFK’s murder’ at or . 2 John Newman’s very dry, analytical work on CIA documents, for example, in his Oswald and the CIA. At another level Chauncey Holt’s […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] if the trial was conducted by the book, he must have been.) The Swedish police are pretty dodgy, too; look at the mess they made over the murder of Olof Palme. (Don’t go by Kurt Wallander.) The police, press and politicians seem to be allowed to prejudice trials in advance. Again, Assange is an […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] led him to set up a parliamentary inquiry headed by Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] official receipt of DPD’s evidence on November 27. Furthermore, DPD’s supposedly ‘suspicious’ public silence about the fingerprint evidence during the 48 hours between the assassination and Oswald’s murder is easily explained as being caused by the precedence given by Texas state law enforcement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (a situation that, by coincidence, […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a number of people have shown that the photographs were taken between 2.20 and 2.30 pm. The first trio of tramps were arrested before news of the murder of officer J. D. Tippit reached Dallas police HQ at 1.15. See . 22 It didn’t help that his posthumous memoir was mangled by its publisher. […]

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