Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. The […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] all went to Princeton. George Rentchler was in my class there and was a friend. James Rentchler worked in the White House for both Presidents Carter and Reagan in the National Security Council on European affairs and served as Ambassador to both Guinea and Malta. His flat, as Gallagher described it, was filled with […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] $20 billion dollars in losses…’ ‘Well, there was no ‘oil shortage’ ….the whole scam was intended to make sure Carter was a one-term president. As soon as Reagan came in office, all of a sudden the CIA miraculously reversed their dramatic doomsday predictions that oil was running out and the world was awash in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] time a group of Republican businessmen in California sought a viable candidate, they chose someone you would buy a used car from, the B list actor Ronald Reagan. The outpouring of uncritical praise following his recent death merely confirmed the triumph of his image over reality. In the last Presidential election, Al Gore was […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] add this: Stich has collected together many of the conspiracy theories, bits of research and allegations on the U.S. political and intelligence fringe since the arrival Ronald Reagan. Some of these fragments are more convincing than others; all are interesting. A better starting place for the study of the darker side of recent U.S. […]