Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] But the other two men had only minor injuries. While the interns checked the patients, one of them casually remarked that he knew of “a plot to kill Jack Kennedy”. He went on to tell the 11 startled medical students that one of the men involved in the plot was a man called “Jack […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] for drone attack under this policy. As Scahill puts it, Obama and his officials enthusiastically ‘embraced the neoconservative vision of the world as a battlefield and the kill lists they built would encompass the globe’. Moreover, whereas Bush used to delegate assassination decisions, more from laziness than any other factor, Obama is a hands-on […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] is an investigation in the depravity of war, not only for those upon whom it is waged but also for those who are just there to obey, kill and die. It is also something like what the Germans call a Bildungsroman, a novel in which the protagonist is educated and developed into the character […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] scale of Dulles’s falsehood: the Lincoln assassination was most definitely a plot, involving four would-be assassins, only one of whom – John Wilkes Booth – managed to kill his intended target. Booth’s unsuccessful co-conspirators were: George Atzerodt (who was meant to kill Vice-President Andrew Johnson) and Lewis Powell and David Herold (who were meant […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] wish you reading this dead, whoever you are, for no other reason than that you belong to a society like this one…….we have enemies who want to kill as many of us, the more innocent the better, as possible, by any means possible, as a deliberate strategy….’ Lanchester means Islamists; and a week or […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] was some sort of military version of himself. The nickname derived from the General’s many ‘Mattisisms’ such as ‘Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet’ and ‘If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.’2 One can see the attraction that he had for Trump, who at this […]