Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] is classified, and the US government will neither confirm nor deny their existence. The Human Potential Foundation In October 1992, the Human Potential Foundation (HPF), chaired by Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, embarked on a project to deliver to the White House compelling evidence of the reality of UFOs, in the hope of […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] a company devoted to producing better equipped American children, making educational software available to schools – at a price. Consultants to the firm include Bill Brock, former senator and chair of the Republican National Committee; Bob Stearns, a George W. appointee to a Texas technology board; Peter Su, a former presidential campaign advisor, and […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Non-lethality Policy Review Group, led by Major General Chris S. Adams, USAF (retd.), former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. (4) They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Janet Morris, the military attache at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC about the possibility […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
Political activist Daniel Ellsberg and Professor Alfred McCoy have something special in common. Based on their actions and accomplishments of nearly thirty years ago, they have achieved the status of icons within the subculture of what passes for the New Left. Icon Ellsberg became a celebrity in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers, an … Read more
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] previously mentioned Coalition For Peace Through Strength. (CPS-US) Also speaking at the March 1982 British meeting were Morton Blackwell and Dick Minard. Blackwell was chief advisor to Senator Gordon Humphrey and Exec. Director of ECUD. He led the day-to-day assault on Warnke and represented, perhaps,’ the heart and soul of the ultra-conservative arm of […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] committee, Denton and Morris describe and analyse a key moment in the US’s post-war history. Kefauver’s televised questioning of various mobsters had made him, hitherto an obscure senator from Tennessee, into a national political figure, as well-known at the time as another junior senator – the one from Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy. The Kefauver committee […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] The slaughtered villagers were recorded as enemy dead and Kerrey received the Silver Star for the massacre. He went on to become governor of Nebraska, a US senator and a university president in New York.(10)There were hundreds of such raids and everyone killed was claimed as Vietcong. The large number of women killed were […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the Gemstone File. Words cannot adequately describe its unsettling aura of psychopathology. Much of the page features a photocopied portrait shot of Joan Kennedy (at the time, Senator Edward Kennedy’s wife), as originally printed in Good Housekeeping. Above it, Roberts reproduces the magazine’s masthead, then pens in the following indicia: ‘PUBLISHED BY HEARST CORP. […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] I presume, in seeing Richard Tomlinson rubbished, which chapter 16 of the Paget report does.) Israeli lobby In December 2006 a letter from James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota, about the Israeli lobby in the US, began circulating on the Net. Its most striking paragraph was this: ‘I can tell you from […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] concern about foreign influence or interference.(13) The Lugar Report I draw these criteria from The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance, a 2006 report prepared by the NED for Senator Richard G. Lugar(14) who is dumbfounded that all the US’s largesse is rejected. But even though the report tells us that democracy building as a policy […]