On the 12th February 1967, Rosemary James of the New Orleans States-Item newspaper discovered that Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, had spent more than $8,000 on his own investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy. (The story appeared on the front page on February 20th.) Two weeks later the DA’s office announced the … Read more
[…] Cold War as at best irrelevant and at worst, in the right’s version, as a terrible mistake. In the other way of looking at it, the Cuban Missile Crisis had demonstrated that the Cold War had become so dangerous it had to be managed; and detente was that management. Detente had two major American […]
[…] the Cold War International History Project is out. Issues 8-9 is 400 plus A4 pages with archive material on a wide range of subjects including: the Cuban missile crisis; the 1956 Polish and Hungarian crises; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Cuans in Southern Africa, and the collapse of detente in the late 1970s. […]
[…] and witty and with an instrumental view of sex like his own, but also a regular Cold War warrior. He is apparently unaware of Kennedy’s post Cuban Missile Crisis changes – the intention to withdraw from Vietnam and reduce military spending; and his desire for joint exploration of space with the Soviet Union.(2) Why […]
Let’s start with the easiest question: what do George Robertson, Chris Smith and Marjorie ‘Mo’ Mowlam have in common? They are, of course, all strong Tony Blair supporters in the new Labour Cabinet. And what about Peter Mandelson and Elizabeth Symons? Not yet quite Cabinet members, but both are key figures in the ‘modernising project’ … Read more
Why do they do this? In the previous issue I referred to the fictitious comments attributed by Tony Blair to a doctor in Africa. They’ve done it again. In February Blair’s spin doctor in chief, Alastair Campbell, claimed to have saved a man from being beaten by muggers, The Mail on Sunday (23 February) traced … Read more
Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on … Read more
Iraq – fallout continues ‘Five years on from Hutton and we still haven’t been told the truth about the war based on lies’, fulminated Peter Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy files, (2) … Read more
[…] missing.) Investigating Supergun, Scott asks us to believe that twelve officials, some in SIS, sat on information provided by a British company which believed it was making missile parts for Iraq. This was in June 1988. No action was taken until late in 1989. All this at a time when SIS was known to […]
