View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] when reviewing the events of the past weeks. The vicious and obscene snuffmovie broadcast throughout the world in which the conquest of Libya is consummated by Qaddafi’s murder was not accidental. When Ronald Reagan called Qaddafi a ‘mad dog’ he was following a carefully honed script. This ‘mad dog’ imagery – that of an […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Binney. What had happened, Binney deduced, was that the files had been downloaded locally, probably to a thumb drive.’121 Meanwhile, back at the story of the unsolved murder of DNC employee Seth Rich, argued by some to have been the leaker in the DNC: ‘Mr. Butowsky stumbled into the RCH crosshairs after Ellen Ratner, […]

View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] father, RFK Sr.). 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 […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] evidence. So far, there seems to be just one example of this, which appeared in Robin Ramsey’s piece in this journal on ‘The British Gladio and the Murder of Sergeant Speed’.6 Here, testimony is first hand, coming from a Yorkshire businessman called Peter Sanderson, who had been recruited into the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC), […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

Lobster Issue

[…] evidence. So far, there seems to be just one example of this, which appeared in Robin Ramsey’s piece in this journal on ‘The British Gladio and the Murder of Sergeant Speed’.6 Here, testimony is first hand, coming from a Yorkshire businessman called Peter Sanderson, who had been recruited into the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC), […]

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, […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain (continued)

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] both the Third Reich and the OUN sought to defeat the Soviet Union.2 The OUN’s paramilitary branch, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, enthusiastically helped to round up and murder the region’s Jews. Since the OUN’s aim was Ukrainian independence, its Insurgent Army also attempted to exterminate the Polish population in areas the OUN considered Ukrainian […]

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 […]

Accessibility Toolbar