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

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

lob86View from Bridge

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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 […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[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 […]

Holding Pattern

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 […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] beliefs, despite evidence which falsified it. Briefly There is a recent piece in the Irish News in which one Paul Cleeland claims to have been framed for murder after acting as an MI5 assassin in Ireland.44 Being framed by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] beliefs, despite evidence which falsified it. Briefly There is a recent piece in the Irish News in which one Paul Cleeland claims to have been framed for murder after acting as an MI5 assassin in Ireland.27 Being framed by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] proclaimed that THE TREE OF LIBERTY MUST BE REPLENISHED FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THE BLOOD OF COMMIES. The Proud Boys did not deny Pinochet’s torture and murder of the Chilean left, but instead celebrated it and apparently hoped to emulate him under Trump’s leadership. When Trump publicly endorsed the Proud Boys during his […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] proclaimed that THE TREE OF LIBERTY MUST BE REPLENISHED FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THE BLOOD OF COMMIES. The Proud Boys did not deny Pinochet’s torture and murder of the Chilean left, but instead celebrated it and apparently hoped to emulate him under Trump’s leadership. When Trump publicly endorsed the Proud Boys during his […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the CIA.15 File under ‘All our yesterdays’. There is a recent piece in the Irish News in which one Paul Cleeland claims to have been framed for murder after acting as an MI5 assassin in Ireland.16 Being framed by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because […]

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