Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] in question, he has been comprehensively taken for a ride along a false trail laid half a century ago. As definitively established by the formidable and meticulous JFK researcher Richard Bartholomew in his privately circulated 1998 monograph ‘Conflicts in Official Accounts of the Cardboard Carton Prints’3 ), the FBI did indeed match some of […]

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 […]

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 […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] did that get us? Nowhere.14 But on the failing upwards principle, at time of writing she was Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. * new * JFK news On my mobile smartphone I use the Google Chrome browser which provides suggested news stories. It’s very rare for me to follow any of those […]

Lobster review: Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001

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A  review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001

[PDF file]: […] and dirty tricks. Eighteen years of survival and thrival in this highly contentious area is no mean achievement. From the start we have historical articles about the JFK assassination, 1970’s Wilsoniana, plots and rumours about early 1970’s private right wing armies like ‘Unison’, ‘Civil Assistance’, ‘GB75′ – whether real, psy-ops or authoritarian old soldiers’ […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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[…] 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 […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the KGB archives, working with former KGB colonel Oleg Tsarev to deliver in 1991 Ten […]

Lobster review: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

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A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

[PDF file]: […] and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever more bizarre conspiracy theories. There are no stories like “aliens […]

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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