Lobster review: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

Lobster Issue

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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Lobster Issue

[…] the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ – From Mastermind to “The Colossus” he wrote: The 2 key pieces of evidence Nelson uses to incriminate Johnson are wrong. As Groden […]

Lobster review: Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

Lobster Issue

A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

[PDF file]: […] Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, Robin Ramsay’s Lobster casts its net wider to encompass histories of fascism, the JFK assassination, the Lockerbie bombing and the military’s medical experiments on service personnel. What both Lobsters excel at are finding the links between apparently unrelated events, or […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ – From Mastermind to “The Colossus” he wrote: The 2 key pieces of evidence Nelson uses to incriminate Johnson are wrong. As Groden […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] support of the traditional political establishment in both the UK and US has been badly rattled in the last year, the words of Edmund Burke, echoed by JFK, remain prescient: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’. Simon Matthews is the author of Psychedelic Celluloid: […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963) Garrick Alder Above: the masthead of The Cuban Report, as it appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] note, we learn that Operation ARTICHOKE was so-named because it was Dulles’s favourite, er, vegetable. So there’s that. But the main dish here is, of course, the JFK assassination. Dulles effectively disappears while the book’s narrative follows Oswald to Russia and back, then hovers over Lee Oswald’s associates when he settles in Dallas – […]

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