Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] and indirectly endanger my life’. (p. 4). He ‘invited Russian hackers to meddle in American politics . . . appeared to joke about gun lovers assassinating Hillary Clinton, and called President Obama “the founder of ISIS” and linked Senator Ted Cruz’s father to the Kennedy assassination’. (p. 202) There had never been anything like […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton could be considered “treason”. Treason is […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] panic began to set in – although it was tempered by the confident belief that, even if he did win the nomination, he would never beat Hillary Clinton. Even so, many leading Republicans, especially those involved in the areas of foreign policy and national security, determined to do their best to stop Trump even […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Occupation Around the World (London: Verso, 2023) p. 94. 7 Mandelson refers to Epstein as ‘safe’. Sent on May 7, 2002, it said: Do you remember when Clinton saw TB he said he wanted to introduce his travelling friend, Jeffrey Epstein, to TB? This was frustrated – TB said at the time – in […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] In June 1991 Smith took his then understudy, Gordon Brown, to the Bilderberg meeting at Baden Baden. There Brown met the then obscure governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. Blair attended the 1993 Bilderberg Conference in Athens. After the 1993 American presidential election Brown and Blair went out to America to meet the new Democratic […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] brown voters; some tiny influence ops by the Russians;64 a presidential candidate many Democrats didn’t want, and a poor Democratic Party campaign – despite all that Hilary Clinton still won the popular vote. Illing thinks that people are overwhelmed by competing narratives about events – that right and left are in self-reflecting, echochambers of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] brown voters; some tiny influence ops by the Russians;64 a presidential candidate many Democrats didn’t want, and a poor Democratic Party campaign – despite all that Hilary Clinton still won the popular vote. Illing thinks that people are overwhelmed by competing narratives about events – that right and left are in self-reflecting, echochambers of […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Percenters militia group, had helpfully posted online a full list of all those he hoped to execute in the coming American Revolution, a list that included Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and many others. He was eventually sent down for nineteen years and seven months for his part in the plot. […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

Lobster Issue

[…] Percenters militia group, had helpfully posted online a full list of all those he hoped to execute in the coming American Revolution, a list that included Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and many others. He was eventually sent down for nineteen years and seven months for his part in the plot. […]

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