Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy by Kash Pramod Patel

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] their incompetence ‘Chairman Mark Milley and Centcom Commander Kenneth Mackenzie used a drone to execute seven children and thirteen innocent Afghan civilians. That’s not America. We don’t murder innocent children to cover our political asses’. (pp. 159, 163, 166). This suggests an astonishing ignorance of US conduct across much of the world over the […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] especially in the US, is convinced that the persistence of slavery, genocide, and all the other elements of colonialism/imperialism in the US Empire were ‘unintentional’. The regular murder of Blacks by police in the US is not intentional. Lynching was never intentional. In a country whose official explanation for all economic injustice is the […]

The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] point. John Gray in The New Statesman5 accuses Crais of parochialism in omitting the French revolution, as if a progressive cause couldn’t equally be guilty of mass murder and Terror. Similarly, he thinks the timeframe of 1750-1900 was constructed to exclude the Russian revolution and Mao. As if only capitalist exploitation can grow out […]

Newsinger on Patel

Lobster Issue

[…] their incompetence ‘Chairman Mark Milley and Centcom Commander Kenneth Mackenzie used a drone to execute seven children and thirteen innocent Afghan civilians. That’s not America. We don’t murder innocent children to cover our political asses’. (pp. 159, 163, 166). This suggests an astonishing ignorance of US conduct across much of the world over the […]

The nature of the state and future challenges

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] seen as the ability to reduce all forms of power to a clear and transparent set of rules (e.g. the EU). On the In Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces To Clinton’s Columbine and beyond (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2005) 3 other there is a rebellion against the truth (that […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] tall building – are urging an independent inquiry into the Manhattan collapses?1 0 How are we to see the Bush administration’s reluctance to investigate the greatest mass murder in US history and its refusal to disclose material evidence as anything other than a suspicious, if not guilty, demeanour?1 1 How, moreover, are we to […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.54 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] inadequate it really was.’ Former ambassador Craig Murray also commented on the publication of this letter on his blog: ‘It is five years since I published in Murder in Samarkand and this FCO insider account, given to me in 2002 while I was Ambassador in Tashkent: “You’re wondering why we signed up to it? […]

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