A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: […] and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever more bizarre conspiracy theories. There are no stories like “aliens […]
[PDF file]: […] the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the KGB archives, working with former KGB colonel Oleg Tsarev to deliver in 1991 Ten […]
A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)
[PDF file]: […] Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, Robin Ramsay’s Lobster casts its net wider to encompass histories of fascism, the JFK assassination, the Lockerbie bombing and the military’s medical experiments on service personnel. What both Lobsters excel at are finding the links between apparently unrelated events, or […]
[PDF file]: […] support of the traditional political establishment in both the UK and US has been badly rattled in the last year, the words of Edmund Burke, echoed by JFK, remain prescient: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’. Simon Matthews is the author of Psychedelic Celluloid: […]
[PDF file]: The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963) Garrick Alder Above: the masthead of The Cuban Report, as it appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
[PDF file]: Too Stoned The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War Norman Stone London: Allen Lane, 2010, £30, h/b You remember Norman Stone: one of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite historians and occasional speechwriter for her. I had not read any of his books but I picked up a copy of this in my […]
[PDF file]: […] note, we learn that Operation ARTICHOKE was so-named because it was Dulles’s favourite, er, vegetable. So there’s that. But the main dish here is, of course, the JFK assassination. Dulles effectively disappears while the book’s narrative follows Oswald to Russia and back, then hovers over Lee Oswald’s associates when he settles in Dallas – […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
[PDF file]: […] were not discouraged by the Kennedys as they wanted LBJ off the ticket for the 1964 election. This simmering scandal threatened to end LBJ’s political career, but JFK was killed. When he was eventually prosecuted, Baker kept his mouth shut and LBJ just managed to keep the lid on things The Nixon regime which […]
