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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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow her country to be used two years later for a US attempt to murder Gaddafy by bombing after the Berlin La Belle night club attack in which American soldiers died. Ashton does not devote much of his book to the […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] left-wingers, whom Lacerda accused of being crypto-communists. In 1954, Lacerda had stirred up such controversy against President Getúlio Vargas28 that one of Vargas’s inner circle tried to murder Lacerda. Three weeks later, with the scandal closing in on him, Vargas committed In the event, Kennedy’s Democrats lost four seats in the House and gained […]

Mark Lewis and ‘the ultimate hacker’

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Guest More, 68, a millionaire jailed at Chester Crown Court for nine months in 2004 for helping his son to escape to Spain after the torture and murder of a cannabis farmer in Cheshire. His son, also known as Christopher Guest More, had been working for the BBC as a fixer and investigator on […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] found murdered, in what was later proved to be a staged suicide. The serving prosecutor-general at the time opened a case on Kolomoisky in relation to the murder of Serhiy Nikitin, but found insufficient evidence to proceed. On the other hand, Kolomoisky has openly threatened the President of Georgia, telling one journalist during an […]

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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.13 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s […]

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