The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] mass destruction’ lies as examples of Leftist dishonesty. The vector for this contamination was apparently Dominic Cummings, a man much influenced by the example of the Comintern agent Willi Munzenberg! This is just so much special pleading, of course. And while not defending Blair, it is worth remembering that the invasion of Iraq had […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] was has been difficult to grasp until recently. But Amy Reading has researched it in detail and has published an intelligible account.2 7 Via Robert Caro’s literary agent, I sent a third e-mail to him wondering why he had omitted Billie Sol Estes from his most recent volume on LBJ. For the third time […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these claims in […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue

[…] dropped. Millions dead and often permanent environmental damage was done to health and livelihoods as ‘19 million gallons of toxic herbicides’, and indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange were unleashed on Vietnam. The infamous Phoenix Program of assassination and terror with an estimated 70,000 Vietnamese deaths replete with sadistic torture chambers. Whole populations […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

Lobster Issue

[…] Hunt, two senior ex-CIA officers, joined ex-FBI Gordon Liddy in ‘the plumbers’.4 The author can’t quite demonstrate that Hunt, and/or McCord, and/or Eugenio Martinez (a CIA contract agent, also in ‘the plumbers’), told the CIA what they were doing out of the White House basement. But it would be a surprise if none of […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] many in the Pakistan military were very strongly supportive of al-Qaeda.4 6 We know, for example, from the work of Peter Lance that at least one double agent, Ali Mohammed, was close to senior figures within al-Qaeda and the US. We also know that British-born Sheikh Saeed, who, according to former Pakistan president Pervez […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] who had contact with the CPGB,42 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame Jefferson Morley takes […]

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