Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] of continuing threats to erode the First Amendment in the US, particularly recent legislation, , which would have provided greater powers to prosecute whistle-blowers. Although vetoed by Clinton, it could be revived. In the UK, only a week earlier, the government had thrown out an attempt to prosecute Colonel Nigel Wylde under the Official […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] Command (the successor to Strategic Air Command which includes ballistic missile submarines) were ‘in the early stages of building and testing computer models that could enable Mr Clinton to aim nuclear weapons at third world nations that threaten the interests of the United States or its allies’. (17) The transition from massive nuclear targeting […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to the presence of oil in the Sudan.For a detailed account of recent events in the Sudan see The European-Sudanese Public Affairs council pamphlet, Farce Majeure: the Clinton Administration’s Sudan Policy by David Hoile (ISBN 1-903545-00-5). Readers with long memories will recognise Hoile as former young activist on the radical right of the early […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] the FBI wants the same thing. Not to be outdone, the NSA played the major role in the development of the ‘Clipper Chip’ recently approved by President Clinton, and soon the government will start requiring industry to provide phones and computers equipped with it. This chip contains encryption algorithms that can be broken by […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] quotation from the faintly mysterious and spooky Dr. C. B. Scott Jones. In 1994 Scott Jones had meetings with Dr. John Gibbons, the scientific advisor to President Clinton, at which various bits of evidence about UFOs were presented to Gibbons.(3) On 17 February 1994 Scott Jones wrote to Gibbons, …I urge you to take […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] children – all 74 of them – were still glowing as the nation’s major news institutions rousingly endorsed the decision of Janet Reno and her boss, Bill Clinton, to give the FBI (and, as it turned out, the Delta Force) the go-ahead for an operation that ensured massacre. Newsweek, we particularly remember, rushed out […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] (5) The only substantial evidence that was presented at the trial was hard to dislodge because the witnesses were respected and not seeking media attention. Residents of Clinton claimed that they had seen Oswald, Ferrie and Shaw together in the town when black voters were registering. Hindsight suggests that while Oswald and Ferrie were […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] a free ride in 1972, against the ‘unelectable’ McGovern. Watergate remained a non-issue until the lies became too blatant to dismiss. Greenberg, who worked on Bob Woodward’s Clinton book, The Agenda, never even wonders about the identity or motivation of Deep Throat. Nixon held the press off for a while with attack, the same […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] ‘2004 U.S. presidential election controversy’ which has grown like Jack’s beanstalk as partisans and disinteresteds alike slug it out.(11) However, history is written by the victors. Former Clinton ally (i.e. converted neo-conservative) Dick Morris gave the world the benefit of his insight shortly after election day. Who does Mr Morris think is to blame […]