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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

GArrick Timmi text

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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 […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] as such in Leese’s 1936 publication, Our Jewish Aristocracy: A Tale of Contamination. He was a persistent advocate of the Jewish ‘blood libel’ of Jewish ritual child murder, pushing this particular antiSemitic slander as late as 1953. (p. 44) He became disillusioned with the Nazi regime at the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, a […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] somewhat, being chatty, full of slang and written in ‘Americanised’ English. It also includes dramatised scenes with imagined dialogue. The Palme assassination is probably the biggest unsolved murder of our time. Or, if one is of the view that the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations remain unsolved, one of a half-dozen or so […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] evidence in their archives of a conspiracy behind the Hess Flight lay like an unexploded bomb. It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] ever existed. His reaction to this disagreement has been an intriguing mix of aggressive, passive aggressive and straight-up hippy – e.g. ‘People who try to cover up murder will be murdered under karma. Judgement Day is 22 August 2021. Love Dave.’10 As a kindly friend mentioned to me, ‘Obviously no-one could possibly have a […]

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

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

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