Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] saucers, Nazi tech, CIA disinfo on free energy motors that power them. Plausible premise, but announcing how he saw Adolf and Eva Hitler in San Antone with LBJ in ’67 may hurt his credibility.’ (Emphasis added.) This stuff is even creeping into the British mainstream media. One of the militias’ spokespersons, the lawyer Linda […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
The incompetence which has been the hallmark of the world’s ‘most powerful man’ has left the world with a legacy we can only begin to rub our eyes at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] and Carter – who tried to slow/stop the nuclear arms race, were right. But Kennedy was killed (if not by the Pentagon, by one of the politicians, LBJ, who fronted for it on Capitol Hill) and Carter retreated when his talk of nuclear disarmament was rubbished at home and in the Kremlin (where there […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] of sense, why do something so massive and so economically destructive? The same propaganda effect, the same stampeding of Congress, could have been achieved with infinitely less. LBJ stampeded Congress with nothing more than radar contacts between North Vietnamese and US boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. If you wanted to blame al-Qaeda for […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] ex-Presidents Nelson Mandela for instance. Celebrities have occasionally dropped by. But it is instructive to think back just a few years. Would we have seen, say LBJ and Robert Redford in the same venue Blackpool in 1972, perhaps being introduced by that years Conference Chair, Tony Benn? Perhaps the episode represents […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] the U.S. invasion, and secondly by being there even when Iraq was run by Saddam. Has crony capitalism evolved since the days when Brown and Root pump-primed LBJ for special treatment? Whilst the Brown brothers set out to win government business by developing what by today’s standards would be judged corrupt means, and to […]