Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. […]
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 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] this is not one way traffic – but this does not criminalise them. Russian cyber warriors are ‘criminals’; their Chinese equivalents are working for their country. The murder of a British businessman who worked in China and was associated with the now disgraced Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party chief of Chongqing who was […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] at the time that the same network had been killing people in Texas since 1951 (when Wallace received a five year suspended sentence for a first degree murder). In Estes’ version the JFK killing is merely one element in the wider scandal, the core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice […]