Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] 1974), pp. 76-77 41 Lukas (see note 9) p. 37; Weissman (see note 41) pp. 78-81 12 42 Argentina, Lebanon and Chile. It must be kept in mind that OSS and CIA has been using the connections of the international heroin traffic for covert operations virtually without interruption since “Operation Underworld” in 1943. At […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] because it reveals that the cuntocratic world has certainly been made by cunts, and its principles are therefore to be found within the modifications of these cunts’ mind. Universities are there to hide knowledge using a sophisticated form of administrative pedagogical cuntocracy that involves the selection and employment of ignorant, lazy cuntocrats to run […]

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] peace with the world.10 Read Carroll’s book in tandem with this. Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges after the Brighton Bomb – a Memoir (London: Pluto Press, 2021). 10 5 Simon Matthews’ latest book is Free Your Mind!: Giovanni ‘Tinto’ Brass, ‘Swinging London’ and the 60s Pop Culture Scene (Harpenden : Oldcastle Books, 2023, £15.99) 6

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the metaphor ‘turn the key’ evokes the literary roman à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is at 2 scepticism (given full wind on social media) when post-election stories about anomalous results started to trickle in. The example that is foremost in my mind is the constituency of Bedford Borough, my place of birth and a key Tory-Labour marginal. Here it was reported that a sack containing 5,000 extra votes […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: The Never Trumpers Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites Robert P Saldin and Steven M Teles Oxford University Press, 2020, £21.99 (h/b) Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum New York: Harper, 2020, $28.99 (h/b) Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us Amanda Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), 2018, […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

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[…] of war), the length and verbosity of the various US enquiries set up to determine culpability for being ‘unprepared’ at Pearl Harbour, suggest a widespread frame of mind that takes as its starting point that America is entitled to regard itself as invulnerable.1 This conclusion is strengthened by the author neglecting to discuss the […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to blow a million minds simultaneously by pouring pure LSD into the reservoirs serving Birmingham. Detectives were horrified when they heard what the drug barons had in mind. The story, which was police-sourced, was written by Ed Laxton, the ghost writer for Operation Julie undercover officer Martyn Pritchard’s book, Busted! The Sensational Life-Story of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] review was reposted at Aaronovitch Watch at . put on their front pages the fact that the Labour Party had hired a former Obama strategist to master mind their forthcoming election campaign. Of course they looked to America. Where else? As these columns have reported ad nauseam for nearly twenty years, the Labour Party […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] George Osborne saying that he had seen the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life… .” ‘Clegg….had already changed his mind about the deficit reduction plans. He was concerned about the firestorm engulfing Greece, and worried that it would spread across Europe, as Spain appeared vulnerable ….he […]

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