Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] as innocent as he claims. And – the final straw – how could he be said to be ‘unlawfully detained’ when he detained himself? (In the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid extradition.) Well, my longish piece of about a year ago explains pretty clearly, I think, how and why.1 I’ve little to add […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] were hardly criminal offences, even if carried out in 100 consecutive marginal 58 Summer 2010 constituencies. The role played by the Voice of America and the US Embassy in Rome in influencing the outcome of the 1948 Italian election is a matter of record. Can a similar process be seen at work in the […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] then knew as a “Disneyland”, but subsequently learned to call a theme park.’ The next day Cole recounted this to the Economic Attaché of the United States embassy: ‘He looked at me in genuine astonishment, thoughtfully laid down his fork, and exclaimed: “But gee, John, you can’t all make a living opening doors for […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] introduction to the Israelis by his law chambers colleague and president of the Board of Deputies Eldred Tabachnik. Nor is it still widely known that the Israeli embassy introduced Blair to Levy, who then opened the till that freed his tennis pal from party obligations. Much of what happened under the Blair premiership remains […]