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, […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] offered a 500,000 USD bounty for his capture. In a bugged phone conversation that was later leaked to Ukrainian media, Kolomoisky also made a veiled threat to kill Tsaryov, couching it as a warning that Jewish business leaders had offered a million USD for Tsaryov’s assassination. Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2014 (see note […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] that this was another of Liggett’s killings, although he did not say why Liggett would wait several years (and until LBJ had quit politics and died) to kill Peck’s widow, too. The obvious implication is that Mrs Peck’s death was connected to knowledge of her late husband’s role as LBJ’s ‘body double’. At his […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] to write what became Legend at a time when the CIA was under intense scrutiny for a series of illegal activities, most famously a CIAMafia plot to kill Fidel Castro. The political climate led to investigations by the Senate Church Committee and the creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). The CIA […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke inspection rules at arms factory supplying Saudis in Yemen war’.75 Two things are going on here. The […]

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