View from the bridge

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[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.10 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later claimed that he had made tape recordings of his conversations with various people involved and that it was the threat […]

View from the bridge

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[…] numbers rough sleeping, schools, Oxbridge research, medical stats, school league tables, poverty, hospital waiting lists, street crime, ambulance response times, doctors’ working hours, unemployment figures and welfare fraud figures. I’m sure you know of other examples. So why could the political system – the politicians – not admit that the neocon ideas had failed? […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

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[…] Caribbean and Central and South America (and helping himself to the barely supervised funds). A pilot as well as a kind of accountant, with expertise in stock fraud and moneylaundering, Holt ended up in California in the early 1960s, running a CIA unit making fake documentation and an engineering shop which produced modified weaponry […]

View from the bridge

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[…] numbers rough sleeping, schools, Oxbridge research, medical stats, school league tables, poverty, hospital waiting lists, street crime, ambulance response times, doctors’ working hours, unemployment figures and welfare fraud figures. I’m sure you know of other examples. So why could the political system – the politicians – not admit that the neocon ideas had failed? […]

Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] media onslaught of the Corbyn years were always small. The fact that Williamson has been proved right on nearly everything he stood for, especially in challenging the fraud that was the ‘Labour antisemitism crisis’, didn’t count for anything at the time. To be smeared and abused with impunity by Israel-supporting figures in politics and […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at the count were immediately briefed, they understood the situation, and did not think it significant to report.’ As shown by the current investigations into Tory expenses fraud during the 2015 election campaign,4 there are legitimate reasons to be sceptical about the results. The stories discussed above, however, are not legitimate reasons for scepticism. […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] corresponded with Chris Fay, formerly a Labour councillor in Greenwich (19861990) who was eventually expelled from the Labour Party and later jailed for being party to a fraud perpetrated against old age pensioners.4 It also appears to be the case that both 3 The press reported that the brother of Danczuk’s ex-partner – who […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] peace loving – war making; and replete with crime, double standards and hypocrisy in the ‘too big to fail and too big to jail’ systemic world financial fraud, and so on. Its ideological cover is wearing increasingly thin. The U.S. is fast becoming an ideological phantom! And the Orwellian doublethink laden in U.S. ruling […]

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