Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Government should consider pensioning off the whole of MI6 and hiring Patrick Cockburn instead’. The second is a quote from one of Sydney Blumenthal’s e-mails to Hilary Clinton when she was Secretary of State, that Cockburn ‘was almost always correct on Iraq’. Both quotes point to another of Cockburn’s themes, which is implicit, rather […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] Iran during the hostage crisis. President Reagan presided over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear weapons against Libya. The second Bush administration threatened the use of the same nuclear weapons during the invasions of Afghanistan and […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] there’s big money for ex-leaders there, too. George W Bush has always had enormous family sources to draw upon from his father’s post-White House dealings, and Bill Clinton has reaped huge rewards from speechmaking around the world. And not just former presidents: Henry Kissinger is still making piles as a consultant almost 40 years […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]