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

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[…] 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), […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

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 […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a total sale of over two million. As Leonard observes, the fact is ‘that there was a sizeable audience in the US for a song extolling mass murder’. (pp. 224-225) Presumably this did not perturb the FBI in the slightest. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for a quote from Merle Miller’s Lyndon: an Oral Biography88 to the effect that senior CIA officer Richard Helms reported hearing LBJ, when president, saying that Kennedy’s murder was retribution for the murder of President Diem of South Vietnam some weeks before. Do we believe Helms? As CIA’s Deputy Director of Plans at the […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Saville Inquiry in 2003, with BBC news reporting: ‘Soldier F agreed at the Saville Inquiry on Thursday that he killed four people, but insisted he did not murder them. Soldier F admitted killing Michael Kelly, Barney McGuigan and Paddy Doherty and an unidentified man in Glenfada Park.’ 2 In 2011, an entry on the […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his private jet. See . 7 8 See . 9 See, for instance, . 10 Tony Geraghty, The Irish War (London: HarperCollins, 2000) p. 230. ‘Loughlin Maginn murder sparked events that led to collusion probe’, The Irish News, 17 September, 2022 at or . 11 3 There are potentially close to 100 similar cases12 […]

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[…] his private jet. See . 7 8 See . 9 See, for instance, . 10 Tony Geraghty, The Irish War (London: HarperCollins, 2000) p. 230. ‘Loughlin Maginn murder sparked events that led to collusion probe’, The Irish News, 17 September, 2022 at or . 11 3 There are potentially close to 100 similar cases12 […]

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