The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth: The New Global Oligarchs and How They’re Taking Over Our World by Stephen Armstrong

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[…] one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought Chelsea FC ‘to protect himself against assassination’, although quite […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he argues. When it comes to describing military offensives, the government give us ‘remotely piloted air systems’, ‘precision weapons’ and ‘collateral damage’ rather than bombdropping drones that murder civilians. Conversely, alongside these euphemisms for hiding state violence, there are also euphemisms for stripping away the rights of individuals. Since 9/11 a world has been […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has been known for a couple of years. Much the same information was included in chapter 10 of Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.35 Daily Mail blogging: it’s a lonely place In the latest instalment of his ‘View from the Bridge’, Robin Ramsay mentions Peter […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots did eventually murder their own prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. My mentor knew his stuff and told me that he was working directly with Al, a word that […]

Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and shortly thereafter a minor slew of books about the evidence that incriminates Wallace and thereby implicates Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, as the main motivator behind the murder. This has now been superseded by a period in which critics have attempted to dismiss this evidence. There are two prominent and respected critics who object […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots did eventually murder their own prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. My mentor knew his stuff and told me that he was working directly with Al, a word that […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] out significant details you will read here.7 Shenon on NPR: Philip Shenon and Larry J. Sabato, ‘How the CIA Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFK’s Murder’ or . 5 HAVANA AP – by Daniel Harker: ‘Castro Blasts Raids on Cuba – Says U.S. Leaders Imperilled by Aid to Rebels’, 9 September 1963. […]

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