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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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 […]

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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] * Mark Groubert notes that in the USA: ‘…there have been 44 documentaries, docudramas and news specials that have aired during this 50th anniversary of the JFK murder. All 44 have somehow 1 2 If you do watch Jackie you see that she stares at the back of JFK’s head (where the exit wound […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] months after Blair was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] detailed account of those files at . 2 3 4 Yes, the son of Sidney. 5 See, for example, or 6 7 8 2 After the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny by the Russian state, it had an article headlined ‘Navalny poisoning: CIA, MI6, “discredited” state-funded Bellingcat play key role in accusing Russia’.9 *new* […]

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