Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] apartheid, Rosenhead is going to be taught how to think correctly about anti-semitism. All this quasi-legal activity expelling people for not toeing the line, has Author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. This was reviewed at . 70 or 71 On whom see or . 72 or 73 25 cost the Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] the Labour line on anti-semitism actually is these days, the business of expelling Jewish members who won’t toe that line John Booth spotted this. 41 Author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. This was reviewed at . 42 or 43 14 continues. The latest such victim is Jonathan Rosenhead, emeritus Professor of […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] actions that John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson could carry out in Vietnam, they were possible because of almost complete lack of public attention.’ 14 Chomsky merges LBJ and JFK as if they had the same intentions and policies. When I read this I thought, ‘I’ll bet Jim DiEugenio has a go at this.’ […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics Jonathan Marshall Note: In my ‘Blackmail and the Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which shows that JFK was discussing discussing the possibility of allowing a military coup in Brazil and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: Oh, conspiracy! Robin Ramsay The Guardian has been having an attack of conspiracy theory anxiety. First there was the piece on 18 December by Natalie Nougayrède, the former diplomatic correspondent and later editor of Le Monde, ‘The conspiracy theories of extreme right and far left threaten democracy’.1 The subhead, expressing her thesis, was this: ‘In […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of a nonmatch between the known prints of LBJ crony Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace and the prints listed as ‘unidentified’ obtained by the Bureau from the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. Seven months after receiving […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Doppelgangers The murky history of the deployment of lookalikes for political purposes has always fascinated me, and is an area that I explored a little in ‘ LBJ: Doubles and Disinformation’ in Lobster 67. The first week of December saw a startling chance pair of photographs taken by the same snapper, showing two ‘Barack […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: The President and the Provocateur The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald Alex Cox Harpenden (UK); Oldcastle Books, 2013, £12.99, p/b T his is Alex Cox’s take on the Kennedy assassination; and ‘take’ is apposite because this is Alex Cox the filmmaker1 and occasional contributor to these columns. Cox presents two parallel narratives, […]
