The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ISBN-10 : 1733658009 (p/back) Garrick Alder Plots? Plural? Think of Franklin D. Roosevelt and plots, and the so-called Business Plot1 is the only one that comes to mind. Therefore, any book that promises a plethora of plots is parapolitical catnip; and Denton’s is that book – or at least the only one staking that […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] pacifists/nutters – delete according to taste – many of whom are ‘domestic extremists’ by the criteria used by the Metropolitan Police in recent years. With this in mind is the new gay-friendly MI5 going to reconstitute F branch (the watchers of subversives), which it apparently disbanded to concentrate on jihadis? The innocents Because it […]

Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was published by AP on 4 May 2022. The AP video itself is examined as part of this essay, in Appendix One. Before proceeding, let us re mind ourselves of the supposed survivors of the attack, as seen in the hoax video. Figure 1 1 Figure 1 above shows three sequential frames from the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] pacifists/nutters – delete according to taste – many of whom are ‘domestic extremists’ by the criteria used by the Metropolitan Police in recent years. With this in mind is the new gay-friendly MI521 going to reconstitute F branch (the watchers of subversives), which it apparently disbanded to concentrate on jihadis? The innocents B ecause […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] no more use and dumped him, leaving Wyatt to lament into his tape-recorder that Murdoch ‘has behaved like a swine and a pig’) and so to my mind the look of this ‘meeting with conspirators’ is that the whole thing was orchestrated by Mr Murdoch himself. It’s the simplest explanation. It’s clear from this […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] in Foreign Secretary William Hague’s speech to the House of Commons. He didn’t actually deny the central allegations: he said they were ‘baseless’, which, to the legal mind – and clever lawyers will have been over his text – is not the same thing as ‘false’. It was a classic non-denial denial. Secondly, he […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that the assault on US constitutional democracy that Trump was carrying out while in office is going to continue regardless. Inevitably comparisons with Weimar Germany come to mind. There are neo-Nazi militias (thankfully few in number at the moment) openly parading in the US; the Republican Party seems wholeheartedly committed to a racist voter […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] historically as well in philosophically, this is a bracing warm-up class for the overdue heavy lifting this country’s politics badly needs. Like The Return of the Public Mind, the latest book from Chris Hedges is well footnoted and indexed. Hedges has covered wars around the world, is a columnist for Truthdig.com and a widely […]

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