NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] syndicate’s Asian Meyer Lansky. Captured by the Japanese after the invasion of the Philippines, Lewin ran gambling operations even in jail. He later became part of a Murder Incorporatedstyle outfit set up by top McArthur aide named General Charles Willoughby who ran Army Intelligence (G-2) during the U.S. occupation of Japan. He worked closely […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] the time.) Having worked on this issue for a long time, it’s hard for me to see it; but from Anthony Frewin’s essay on the Frank Olsen murder of the 1950s, through Simon Matthews’ piece on the US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.40 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 Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] record of what actually transpired during the Trump Presidency. In her first chapter, ‘The Burning Church’, which deals with the rioting and protests provoked by the police murder of George Floyd, she hilariously describes Trump as ‘a hard worker, generally amicable and typically good at lightening the mood’. One of her proudest moments during […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Fascists, like Rolf Gardiner, became pioneers of the nascent Green movement, promoting agricultural reform and ecological awareness. Some became involved in pro-Arab, antiZionist activism, particularly following the murder of two British sergeants by the Israeli terrorist group, Irgun, in 1947. Others, such as the Earl of Portsmouth, went to Africa after the War to […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of 2018. Until recently they have by and large maintained their silence regarding their experiences as members of the Trump administration. In the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd and of Trump’s threatening to use troops against Black Lives Matter protesters, Mattis has spoken out. The violent clearing of peaceful protesters from […]

Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] group was actually the American Nationalist Party and according to Caulfield never 1 Monumental indeed. Almost one thousand pages. Jeffrey H. Caulfield M.D., General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy (Moreland Hills, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015). The entry in LHO’s address book is reproduced on p. 75. The work is available from amazon […]

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