Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 8 In Mexico, rival candidates boast of the importance of ‘their’ US consultants whereas in France, for example, the presence of a US consultant is an election-losing secret. 9 Despite the subtitle of the book, possibly inserted by the publisher, Harding is not really interested in ‘spin’, which apart from anything else is first […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] February 1970 Dee hosted an episode in which he interviewed George Lazenby and Diana Rigg, the stars of the then current James Bond film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’. Lazenby, who was managed by Ronan O’Rahilly, used his appearance on the show to speak at some length about the 23 ‘Girl on a Motorcycle’, […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to a famous investigation into the origins of the 1991 North Wales care homes scandal conducted by the late Richard Webster and reported in his book The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt.14 Smith and Burnett follow Webster’s argument that people mounting a moral crusade against child abuse can […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] and seems to have been particularly close to Roger Stone. The two men have ‘appeared together on numerous occasions dating back to 2018, and they make no secret of their mutual respect. Stone boosts the Proud FEMA is the Federal Emergency Management Agency, effectively the disaster response agency for the United States. It is […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Indeed, Johnson has actually blamed his father for his own conduct, on one occasion, telling his second wife, Marina, after she had thrown him out, ‘his innermost secret’. He had seen his father ‘hit Charlotte. So much about Boris was explained by that experience’. (p. 92) Both she and Bower seem to have fallen […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] and seems to have been particularly close to Roger Stone. The two men have ‘appeared together on numerous occasions dating back to 2018, and they make no secret of their mutual respect. Stone boosts the Proud FEMA is the Federal Emergency Management Agency, effectively the disaster response agency for the United States. It is […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] I now can’t remember how I first came across the LBJ-dunit thesis. Perhaps it was the reference to it in Michael Milan’s The Squad: the US Government’s Secret Alliance with Organized Crime.7 The pseudonymous author of that book I discount James Files’ story. That, as Garrick Alder has shown, is an invention. See . […]

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

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 protection of its territory, fundamental ‘freedoms’ and the interests of the US abroad, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Gladio network was reviewed in Lobster 49. Of particular interest on the IPRD site is a study by Sam Urquhart, Crevice Revisited: Violent Extremism and the British Secret State, whose introduction is this: ‘In April 2007, five British Muslims were sent to jail, in each case for at least twenty years under anti-terrorism legislation. […]

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