[PDF file]: […] USA’s post-WW2 empire, complicates the study of American foreign policy (or would if academics and journalists could bring themselves to read it); and the work of the JFK researchers has produced almost unmanageable complexity. But then Blum and the better end of the Kennedy buffs aren’t offering conspiracy theories so much as theories about […]
[PDF file]: […] (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013). ‘Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics’, and ‘Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate’. Both are in Lobster 73 (Summer 2017). 88 27 isn’t what we learned about American government and democracy in high school civics. But […]
[PDF file]: […] round the subject: ‘The almost-certain assassin, a troubled former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald . . .’ (p. 227). Similarly they are carefully sceptical and non-committal about JFK and Vietnam: ‘. . . over time became increasingly sceptical about South 1 ‘. . . . against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U-2 […]
[…] account of JFK’s foreign policy thinking and – once again – shows in detail that, far from being just another cold warrior, as he is conventionally presented, JFK really was trying to take US foreign policy in a new direction. Far from perpetual war, Kennedy refused to go to war in Cuba—even when he […]
[…] systems and then, using those programmes, to refuse access to sites on that list. Holt again 31 My attempt to kindle interest in Chauncey Holt among the JFK buffs has thus far produced no results. I have yet to see an explanation of why the buffs – and ‘buffs’ isn’t derogatory in my book; […]
[…] was an arms race, the perception of which in the West was manipulated by US intelligence to exaggerate Soviet capacities, which eventually bankrupted both the major players. JFK understood this; and he and Kruschev were trying to wind it down. It would be satisfying to say that JFK was killed to prevent him doing […]
[PDF file]: […] $17.00 (amazon) Alan Jules Weberman or, more familiarly, A J Weberman, is widely known as a garbologist, Dylanologist, and as the author of a book on the JFK assassination.1 The main title page has a photograph captioned in caps THE AUTHOR SUMMER 1963 HITCHING TO THE YUCATAN. Just why this photo is positioned so […]
[…] hardly surprising. Doing anything but accepting the official 9/11 line would be bad for an academic career – in the same way that being interested in the JFK assassination would be. Being labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still a potential career-killer. As a preamble to discussing 9/11 as a false flag attack, Hughes discusses […]
[PDF file]: […] Establish Their National Headquarters in Queens’ (it got some facts wrong, like claiming it was Rockwell’s party not a breakaway group).2 The agencies charged with investigating the JFK assassination together with the various governmental inquiries have been remarkably uninterested in Oswald’s address book, and the Warren Commission, despite reproducing the address book in the […]
[PDF file]: […] he now had two postal addresses in 10 Ironically, the FBI made this disclosure in an attempt to refute the claims of one of the first published JFK conspiracy theorists. See . 11 12 There is a rather furtive twist in his choice of apartment. 4905 Magazine Street is not a separate building, but […]
