Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] no more use and dumped him, leaving Wyatt to lament into his tape-recorder that Murdoch ‘has behaved like a swine and a pig’) and so to my mind the look of this ‘meeting with conspirators’ is that the whole thing was orchestrated by Mr Murdoch himself. It’s the simplest explanation. It’s clear from this […]

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

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] to Mr Adams’ readers, notwithstanding his admirable research to document his story from official records.2 This review examines Milteer might not have had a specific motorcade in mind at this stage. President Kennedy visited Miami fairly often, for personal reasons: the Kennedy family had a compound overlooking Palm Beach. 1 For example, the book’s […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] in Foreign Secretary William Hague’s speech to the House of Commons. He didn’t actually deny the central allegations: he said they were ‘baseless’, which, to the legal mind – and clever lawyers will have been over his text – is not the same thing as ‘false’. It was a classic non-denial denial. Secondly, he […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] in Foreign Secretary William Hague’s speech to the House of Commons. He didn’t actually deny the central allegations: he said they were ‘baseless’, which, to the legal mind – and 3 influencing the democratic development of these countries.’ clever lawyers will have been over his text – is not the same thing as ‘false’. […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] ISBN-10 : 1733658009 (p/back) Garrick Alder Plots? Plural? Think of Franklin D. Roosevelt and plots, and the so-called Business Plot1 is the only one that comes to mind. Therefore, any book that promises a plethora of plots is parapolitical catnip; and Denton’s is that book – or at least the only one staking that […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Brexit. Consequently I do not believe it will happen.2 As the ‘negotiations’ proceed, a negative feedback 1 or . 2 I voted ‘leave’ in the referendum. Never mind the destruction of Greece by the EU, described in detail in the new book by Yanis Varoufakis; a union based on the free movement of capital […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Korean war. The significance of this recurring motif isn’t immediately apparent. Related to this show-trial theme, in chronicling the creation of MKULTRA (‘The Manhattan Project of the mind’, in Dulles’s words), Mr Talbot shows that one of Dulles’s genuine fears about his adversaries was well-founded, or at least comprehensible. The downed airmen who confessed […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] of the metaphor ‘turn the key’ evokes the literary roman à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but […]

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