Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] variations of the Capone story’, observed Messick.102 New York mobster Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, an intimate of Lansky, ‘was a frequent visitor at the Warner home’, Messick added. 103 In 1956, Semenenko plotted with Baird and Jack Warner to buy out Warner’s older brothers Harry and Albert. The latter two accepted with the understanding that […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] in the Hull North constituency. I ‘Was there a deal with Iran over Lockerbie bombing? The West should come clean about who really bombed Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 – we owe it to the victims’ families’ at . Calling this shameless doesn’t quite do it justice. 26 9 Head of the Aviation […]

Money laundering in British football

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] about the events that have brought this exclusion of Mr. Belokon about, and it does seem extraordinary that a See paragraph 260, at the bottom of page 103 of . 11 conviction not on the merits but based on non-attendance by Mr. Belokon should have this effect. But, as I say, I know nothing […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . . this is a process which is in evolution’. (Emphasis in the original.) That from an organisation which is 111 years old and has had, for 103 of those years, the ‘threat’ from USSR/Russia as a major target. At the end of the report come the inevitable credits – the list of witnesses, […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] business…’ Reported in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 25 January 1925. 8 Philip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, (Harmondsworth, Penguin: 1975) p. 103. See also John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies (1984). extensive military and secret police force to suppress opposition to it. Officially, US national security means the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Corinne Souza died on 13 25 ‘Was there a deal with Iran over Lockerbie bombing? The West should come clean about who really bombed Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 – we owe it to the victims’ families’ at . Calling this shameless doesn’t quite do it justice. March of lung cancer, caused by […]

A Diplomat’s Day by Geoffrey F. Hancock

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] self-consciously bright and overly selfassured statesmen, when combined with gross ignorance, can have fatal effects not just for single individuals but for whole societies and nations.’ (p. 103) This account and the extracts from Hancock’s diary do convey considerable sang-froid on the author’s part; and at the rear of the book there are reproductions […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: The state we are in Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation Sam Bright London: Byline Books, 2023, £14.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2011, the Eton entrance exam paper asked prospective students (12 to 13year-old boys) to draft a speech: The year is 2040. There have been riots in the streets of London after […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline and Drug Connection (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1987) Coleman, L., Trail of the Octopus: The Untold Story of Pan Am 103 (Second edition, Kindle and Nook Publishing, 2010) Cordesman, A H, ‘The Tanker War, 1987-1988’ in Cordesman, A. H., The Iran-Iraq War (Amazone Press, 2003) Dorril, S., […]

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