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

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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

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 […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Trinidad in 1972 by accomplices of Michael de Freitas. De Freitas had a long history of criminal activity and violence and was convicted and hung for the murder of his cousin in a separate but related case. There is some speculation, not substantiated, that he was eliminated as part of the FBI COINTELPRO programme […]

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

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[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 […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] She was also way ahead of her time in recognizing the hidden CIA involvement in Watergate, the Jonestown massacre, Charles Manson killings, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and murder of John Lennon among other “deep-state” crimes. Ah, a footnote! Evidence for all the striking assertions in that paragraph? Alas, it merely links to another profile […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] fact that Linsey kept on his payroll a senior member of the New England Mafia, Mike Rocco. Rocco was a numbers racketeer arrested at various times for murder, extortion, and robbery. Linsey had once been co-owner of the Sahara Motel in Miami with Sam Tucker, a noted bootlegger, gambler, and prominent member (with Moe […]

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