More views from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] children find ways to fake them. An absolute classic of the genre was reported by AP on 6 June 2001: ‘The Pentagon agency charged with rooting out fraud destroyed documents and substituted fakes to win a passing grade in an audit of its own operations, according to an internal inquiry.’ Inspired by this I […]

Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] passing money to the Contras. More damaging to the Foundation, as a result of the investigation, the Foundation’s president, ‘Spitz’ Channell, was accused of, and admitted, tax fraud. Guell immediately left the Foundation to become Director of the Larry McDonald Trust. When Western Goals (UK) was challenged about its links with Channell, through the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] huge army of government lawyers, knowing that I have virtually no legal resources to defend myself against them.’ British state lies! Hold the front page! US election fraud A study of the last US congressional and senate elections has concluded: ‘A major undercount of Democratic votes and an overcount of Republican votes in U.S. […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] ‘heretical’ or unconventional — is best exemplified by the amount of support he has garnered from mainstream church spokesmen in the wake of his prosecution for tax fraud. Even liberal and left-leaning ministers, as well as certain American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) officials, have adopted his view that his incarceration for illegal financial activities […]

The TWA Flight 800 crash: was it missiles?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] This target appeared just seconds before TWA 800 blows up. Several controllers actually reported that it was a missile.'(23) Initially the Russell tape was discounted as a fraud but when it was authenticated the FBI immediately confiscated it.(24) An APA investigator described an extraordinary scene to Russell when he arrived at the TWA 800 […]

Armed Madhouse

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] Here it is. There is a long chapter on the way the Republicans stole the 2004 election. But he isn’t interested in the claims of computer voting fraud in the 2004 election. Palast believes he has shown that the election was stolen using ‘traditional’ methods – rigging the voting lists, discouraging Democrat voters etc. […]

Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] article in Sir James Goldsmith’s magazine NOW!. This dealt in depth with an allegation made in Der Spiegel (June 1963) that Strauss had been involved in a fraud when he was a Minister. Strauss was later exonerated but as a result of the notorious ‘Spiegel Affair’ Strauss’ hopes of becoming Chancellor were dashed. Crozier’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] but of his more recent beliefs.(8) Presidential Election theft 2004 Meanwhile, still barely reported by the major media on either side of the Atlantic, the evidence of fraud in the 2004 American Presidential election continues to grow. And never mind all the stuff from websites like blackbox: we now have reports from Senator Conyer […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] the take-over struggle between Guinness and Distillers. His obituarist in The Independent 15 January 2001, commented that this was ‘on the margins of City practice’. A basic fraud, but on the margins, eh? Ever wonder why private capital wants to get involved with the Private Finance Initiative (PFI)? The Guardian story ‘Billions lost in […]

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