A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which there has been no shortage. It’s easy to see why. Files is a genuine gangster and a would-be killer (his 30-year sentence was for an attempted murder committed in 1991), and he presents a simple story that circumvents the bewildering forest of forensic, ballistic and eyewitness evidence relating to the case. An entirely […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: Stan Bonnett and the Price of Admiralty Murder in Cairo,1 the book about the life and death of David Holden, chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday Times, got me thinking about one of Holden’s Fleet Street contemporaries, Stanley Bonnett. In 1960, in the twilight of the colonial empires, both Holden and Bonnett worked in […]

Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland by Anne Cadwallader

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for fear of alienating what it perceived as the host (Protestant) population. In the earliest mainstream account of these Loyalist killings, Martin Dillon and Denis Lehane’s Political Murder in Northern Ireland (1973), the absence of prosecutions for these murders was attributed to the police force, the RUC, being overwhelmed by the number of deaths. […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of those accused of taking advantage of Epstein’s generosity, in order to rape a thirteen year old girl, was Donald Trump who, the victim claimed, ‘threatened to murder her and her family if she told anyone’. When the allegation first came to light, the press ‘generally refused to report on the case’. Indeed ‘lawyers […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] rest of the former Mrs Liggett’s claims, although it may cast some doubt on her reliability in general.2 In 1974 John Liggett was convicted of the attempted murder of Mrs Dorothy Peck, whom he had bludgeoned with a hammer before – apparently assuming Mrs Peck was dead – attempting to destroy the crime scene […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of the 62-year old Canadian-born engineer Gerald Bull, shot dead outside the door of his Brussels flat on March 22, 1990, has been variously attributed to […]

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[…] talk about it.21 What a pity then that RFK Jr. has chosen to lead the American opposition to vaccines. For this will dominate the conversation, not the murder of his uncle. Why he has gone down this road is unclear to me. I commented on his anti-vaxx writing in this column in Lobster 84 […]

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[…] talk about it.21 What a pity then that RFK Jr. has chosen to lead the American opposition to vaccines. For this will dominate the conversation, not the murder of his uncle. Why he has gone down this road is unclear to me. I commented on his anti-vaxx writing in this column in Lobster 84 […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] another bombing suspect has been apprehended after explosions were caused in the hearts of urban areas in the US. Ahmad Khan Rahami is in custody, charged with murder for having planted the explosive devices in Manhattan and New Jersey (as well as apparently abandoning some more bombs in a New Jersey train). Depressingly, it […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] carrying out assassinations, terrorism and coup-plotting. The ‘strategy of tension’ in Italy in the late 1960s and 70s, in which the right carried out acts of mass murder and terror which were then blamed on the left, was partly the work of Gladio. In Turkey the Gladio units slaughtered the left, trade unionists and […]

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