Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] is a phantom, and it will enslave us.’ Further asides which may whet the appetite of the assiduous Lobster readers are the references to the interventions of JFK in 1963 to prevent the growth of offshore. He had put down legislation to crack down on deferred taxation. ‘The corporate community went ape-shit.’ JFK had […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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, […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Keysers. Edward DuCann, Two Lives (Upton on Severn: Images Publishing, 1995) p. 131. 28 This began during JFK’s term in office. It is not widely understood that JFK was more or less a Rooseveltian Democrat who sought – rather like Harold Wilson – to rebuild the US manufacturing economy and rein in the US […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] as a lot of speculation. The author’s analysis of the shooting and its immediate aftermath is hard to follow and it made me realise how difficult the JFK assassination material must be for those coming to it for the first time. Another Met spook outed Mark Metcalf has written an interesting piece on his […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Meet the new ‘C’ – same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

Lobster Issue

[…] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]

Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book: a follow-up note

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] I believed I was the first to discover the Oswald address book/ The Worker connection, this is not the case. In the July 1996 issue of the JFK assassination research journal The Fourth Decade (Vol. 3/No. 5) there is a note on page 35 written by the journal’s founder and editor Jerry Rose. Rose […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] which he said clearly that there is no way to answer the question ‘Who started it?’ In a way this is just as irrelevant as ‘Who killed JFK?’ However, what makes Cumings’ book remarkable is that he not only does not reject out of hand the idea that tight coincidence within a penumbra of […]

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