Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] up when you‘re 17 and 1/2 ? We‘ll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.” People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God’s name couldn‘t you have full employment and good schools, good […]

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 […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] pedophile communists! 9/11 was an inside job! Our body politic is being poisoned by lies. They stalk the land like brain-eating zombies. And we can’t seem to kill them. We have a moral obligation to call bullshit when we see it. Especially or 23 ‘This Is Where Oliver Stone Got His Loony JFK Conspiracies […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Secondly, it was Steve House, as Assistant Commissioner of Central Operations, whom the Met chose to attempt a soft soap on the use of Operation Kratos ‘shoot-to- kill’ tactics in a 2006 Panorama documentary on the police shooting of Jean-Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station.32 Additionally, I think what can be safely deduced […]

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 […]

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