Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] But he was also a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, resigning in 1975 with the rank of Captain. Wallace ‘had been dealing with a Protestant murder group and paedophile operation out of the Kincora Boys’ Home’. (p. 30). There was no ‘murder group’ at Kincora I have ever heard of and Bloom […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] other, but stayed together for the children’s sake, and that’s probably why I got interested in all this under-the-counter stuff.” Finding personal catharsis by investigating the Kennedy murder, the final link in Lobster’s evolutionary chain was forged in 1982 when Ramsay met fellow Kennedy assassination enthusiast Stephen Dorrell and they decided to start publishing […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of hatred being whipped up that he ‘feared the day would come when the the president’s rhetoric would lead one of his supporters to harm or even murder a journalist’. (p. 2) The Enemy of the People, though, is a chronicle of his reporting of the Trump Presidency, of how ‘America has changed right […]

MI5 speaks to the nation!

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in 2013, MI5’s record keeping was still not up to scratch. The ISC produced a further report on this attack (Report on the intelligence relating to the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby), published in November of 2014, which stated: ‘We have examined, in very considerable detail, the decisions the Agencies made and the actions […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year before Europe’s imperialists plunged the world into four years of mass murder. That war alone caused some four million direct battle casualties and untold millions of non-combatant deaths in the aftermath. Despite the actual policies he pursued, Wilson […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] 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 […]

Also noticed by Robin Ramsay and Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] not Dennis Lehane the American crime writer of that name. This is Denis (one ‘n’) Lehane, the co-author with Martin Dillon of the 1973 Penguin Special Political Murder in Northern Ireland. Lehane was a journalist and this book is his account of what befell him when he declined to be recruited by the CIA. […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] But he was also a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, resigning in 1975 with the rank of Captain. Wallace ‘had been dealing with a Protestant murder group and paedophile operation out of the Kincora Boys’ Home’. (p. 30). There was no ‘murder group’ at Kincora I have ever heard of and Bloom […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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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