Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Kishinev pogrom only a few months earlier. This had left 49 Jews dead and hundreds more injured. In a local newspaper he had peddled the ritual child murder slander after a young Christian boy was found dead – he had in fact been killed by a relative – sparking off the murderous attack on […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] tours as soldiers or as television viewers. This was the daily violence on an unimaginable scale guided by numbing bureaucratic processes that seemed to reduce the mass murder to soporific tedium. It was the war that sent mainly African-Americans and poor whites to kill ‘gooks’ ostensibly to 5 The Geneva Agreements of 1954 ended […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[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. […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[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 […]