What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Germany to talk to the Nazi leaders on a mission which had received the unofficial approval of Neville Chamberlain, who afterward offered to pay Bryant’s expenses from secret service funds. Unfinished Victory was bitterly anti-Semitic. It blamed the Jews, and specifically Kurt Eisner, the leader of the revolution in Bavaria, for the Council Revolution […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and got in touch to query the advert’s provenance, so that one didn’t make it into the light of day. Which sounds exactly like what the British secret state would do to you, if you were on their shit list. Reacting to another wildly exaggerated report, written up for the digestion of senior SDS […]

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’, […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Powell, Downing Street chief of staff. Nor Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications. More importantly still, I have not discovered from either the Joint Intelligence Committee or the Secret Intelligence Service that the prime minister was misrepresenting their intelligence. This failure to challenge Mr Blair means that the Secret Intelligence Service in effect colluded with […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] corporate policing activities. OSS was essentially the kernel of what the CIA would become – what Philip Agee called ‘capitalism’s invisible army’ (one ought to add its ‘secret police’, too).1 6 The creation of the CIA and the origins of the ‘Cold War’ are inseparable. The CIA was founded in 1947, the same year […]

The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into The Octopus and the Promis Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 61 through the book, into the narrative of spies and the mob and hitmen and the theft of the PROMIS software, international spookery, and military developments in secret on an Indian reservation, comes a murderous, drug-dealing criminal gang composed of ex-policemen and ex-soldiers. Well now…. Way back when this magazine began, in the days […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] in Israel, with John Bolton, for example, calling for the US to defund the UNHCR. For the Israel-South Africa connection see Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2010). 5 6 Terris (see note 4) pp. 241, 255. Norman Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its […]

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 […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974 (Repeater Books, 2018) and Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists 1968-1980 (Zero Books, 2022). 1 1 There was a dramatic move from the Old Left to a more disparate New Left. The […]

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