View from the bridge

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[…] the CIA.5 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.6 Being framed by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] scale dumb’. (p. 107) Leaving aside the ‘been a bit sexist’ and ‘perceived to be a bit racist’, this is a remarkable development. Then comes George Floyd’s murder on 25 May 2020. Coming after and overlapping with the disgust at Trump’s response to Covid, Sopel shows dismay turning to anger – not only at […]

The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are… the transgender spy

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[…] had been a fireworks manufacturer since the 1940s, this is just a very striking coincidence. 5 See ‘The Story of Project Babylon, British Spooks, Illegal Arms Deals, Murder And A Judicial State Conspiracy’ at or and . 6 The report used to be on-line but is apparently no longer available. A version was released […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] overall objective of defeating the ‘fascist’ west during the Cold War, the Stasi assisted and funded numerous international terrorist organisations. The Stasi itself was not above committing murder from time to time. Its repressive and brutal conduct moved even Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal to remark that, in terms of mistreating Germany’s own citizens, the post-war […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] modern history a name stands out. That of Don DeLillo. In his thanks Shenon marvels at how close DeLillo’s fiction came to the truth about the Kennedy murder and the Warren Commission which was set up to get to the truth of what happened on that day in Dallas.’ Don DeLillo’s 1988 novel Libra, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.31 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] history of strange behaviour by leading LibDems and members of its pre1988 Liberal Party.28 After the bizarre Liberal Party world was revealed by the 1979 Jeremy Thorpe murder trial – the activities of Peter Bessell and the hired gunman among others – the Liberals relied heavily on Cyril Smith as the party’s popular public […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.31 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s […]

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