Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was coming from; perhaps he had always been a hatchet-man for the hard right of the Conservative Party? I decided to reread his tremendous Blind Eye to Murder, published back in 1981, and actually bought a second hand copy. It only served to remind me of what he had once been before his sad […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

A Memoir of Injustice by Jerry Ray

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the patsy in Memphis. It may illustrate certain peripheral items, such as Ray’s experience of the judicial system, but brother Jerry knows no more about the actual murder conspiracy than we do. The only thought the book provoked in me, reading once again about the mysterious ‘Raoul’ who financed James Earl Ray’s travels around […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s regime was responsible for the murder of at least 3000 Chileans who had backed Allende, while thousands more were imprisoned and tortured and tens of thousands driven into exile. It was not […]

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