Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Street bankers and weapons industrialists had convinced President Harry Truman, as the film shows, to produce 400 more atomic bombs to attack the Soviet Union in 1950-51, kill millions of its people, and take over its huge land and natural resources. (emphasis added) That Truman was so urged I could believe. That Truman was […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘defining moment’ in ‘the Era of Pandemonium’, was the president discovering ‘that disinfectant kills the virus . . . Maybe injecting the right kind of disinfectant might kill the thing’. (pp. 184-185) At the time of writing the US death toll from the pandemic has just exceeded 600,000 people. Smock is also outraged by […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and re-examining the previous inquiries, Susan Williams still cannot tell us who did kill US Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in 1961. Nor how it was done. Nor, for certain, that the plane crash in the Congo which killed him and […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of life occasioned to white troops by such expeditionary work would be avoided, whilst the cost would be considerably reduced’. The fact that such bombardment would inevitably kill noncombatants was more than compensated by the reduction in troop casualties and the comparative cheapness of the use of air power. And this seemed to be […]