The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Milteer was in Quitman at the time of the assassination. By providing false information, someone essentially gave an alibi to a suspect known to have planned to kill the president. (p. 60) (Emphasis in the original.) Another possibility, in fact the only other possibility, is that there was no ‘someone’, and McMahon had outright […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] culture’. On the eve of the Iraq war Bush could say, ’I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.’ (I kill, therefore I am.) This, Professor Boggs comments, was merely a reflection of a deep-seated national exceptionalism and shared political consensus. Congress even passed a law in […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] face’. (p. 176) She describes one rally where Trump actually pondered having journalists killed in front of his cheering supporters: ‘I hate them, but I would never kill them’. He ‘pauses **again** and makes a so-so gesture with his hand, as if entertaining a bloodbath in the press pen’, but then rules it out, […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the threat and more effective cooperation in tackling FIMI. Advancements in the creation and adoption of standardised analytical frameworks, such as ABCDE8, DISARM9 or the Online Operations Kill Chain10 are just some examples. Convened by the European Fact-Checking Standards Network Project (EFCSN), a European Union (EU) funded project, civil society organisations have cooperated to […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] of his race, religion, and place of birth, the attacks increased in frequency and virulence during the 2008 campaign’. At Republican rallies, people ‘were yelling “Terrorist”, ” Kill Him”, and “Treason”’ and all the while, ‘McCain did little to rein in Sarah Palin . . . as her rhetoric became more and more vitriolic […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the threat and more effective cooperation in tackling FIMI. Advancements in the creation and adoption of standardised analytical frameworks, such as ABCDE8, DISARM9 or the Online Operations Kill Chain10 are just some examples. Convened by the European Fact-Checking Standards Network Project (EFCSN), a European Union (EU) funded project, civil society organisations have cooperated to […]

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