A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] helicopter lifted off of the roof of the Saigon embassy compound before the ‘loser’ extended full diplomatic recognition to the country that had defeated it. President William Clinton was quoted as saying that the time was at hand ‘to bind up our wounds’.6 2 Never mind that President Clinton avoided the draft and any […]

The View from the Bridge

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The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia….. In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] in December 1998 and MacShane records that according to No 10 special adviser Roger Liddle – later Baron Liddle – ‘Blair was far more gung ho than Clinton about bombing Iraq’. What surprised MacShane was that the targets ‘included the very centre of Baghdad’. He cannot have been that worried, however, because this entry […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: Tittle-Tattle Tom Easton Balls to the wall The Daily Mirror neatly summed up the post-election fate of two of New Labour’s so-called big beasts when its 15 June headline read: ‘Ed Balls has a new job: Ex-shadow chancellor follows David Miliband to America after election defeat’.1 Milband’s job with the International Rescue Committee (see Lobsters […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 78) And, while this real episode of paedophile rape and underage sex trafficking was taking place, the story being pushed by unofficial Republican sources was that Hillary Clinton was operating a paedophile ring, raping, murdering and eating children as part of a Satanic conspiracy to bring down America. The result was ‘Pizzagate’! This is […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess Sherman McCall, Phillip R. Pittman, Richard Wahl, Francis Powers, Jan Cemper-Kiesslich * This paper refutes all objections to our DNA identification of Rudolf Hess.1 Inter alia we will: 1. Reveal the reporting error prompting many false charges. 2. Explain how Hess’s chest scars were overlooked. 3. Explain the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] 36 Amen to that; but this is the man who, while its American correspondent, ran into the Telegraph all the nonsense coming out of the Republican’s anti- Clinton conspiracy. See . 37 Con Coughlin, ‘Can we still trust the CIA?’ at . ‘intelligence’ linking 9/11 to Iraq to provide the pretext for the invasion […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] could join at some point in the future.12 However, Bush left office in January 1993 and under his two successors the position was transformed. In 1996 President Clinton openly advocated expanding NATO to include the members of the old Warsaw Pact. By 2005 Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it was ever seriously weakened, the power of […]

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