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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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