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 […]

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[…] radiation was released. Russell is unusual in being willing to discuss UFOs, a subject which is still regarded as infra dig by most writers. Granted, like the JFK assassination research, the subject has attracted its far share of nutters over the years; but aren’t we supposed to be better than just walking away because […]

Shirley Williams

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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 view from the bridge

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[…] at university. What he does not mention in that chapter is that between SDS and becoming a professional journalist he had been interested in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. On p. 207 he writes of ‘my first book, The Permanent Campaign, published in 1980’ – omitting his 1976 book on those assassinations, […]

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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[…] radiation was released. Russell is unusual in being willing to discuss UFOs, a subject which is still regarded as infra dig by most writers. Granted, like the JFK assassination research, the subject has attracted its far share of nutters over the years; but aren’t we supposed to be better than just walking away because […]

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[…] Mess that Nuland Made’31, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’32 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]

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[…] Mess that Nuland Made’31, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’32 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events and Peter Dale Scott draws interesting parallels between them and the JFK assassination. Ray McGovern is a retired senior CIA analyst who prepared Presidential Daily Briefs on intelligence. He was recently arrested for protesting against the appointment of […]

Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies by Morag G. Kerr

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] cargo hold. I found much of this boring and some difficult to follow: it needs studying, note-taking. This made me feel the way I did as a JFK assassination beginner encountering the more arcane end of the research, such as the autopsy evidence. I skipped bits of it (Kerr provides handy summaries at the […]

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