The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] records, the invocation of “the ‘Who shot John?’ angle” can only refer to one thing: Kennedy’s assassination. The ambush in Dallas was the first thing on Nixon’s mind as he pressed the director for the agency’s Bay of Pigs files. The president intuited a connection between the failed invasion in 1961 and JFK’s assassination […]

[PDF file]: […] meeting.1 The British participants are: Jeremy Fleming, Director, Government Communications Headquarters Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Cabinet Office Demis Hassabis, CEO and Founder, Deep Mind Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor, The Economist David Lammy, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Bernard Looney, CEO, BP plc Zanny Minton Beddoes, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] issue 28 I have argued that Chauncey Holt 26 Stone’s book is reviewed in Lobster 66 at . 27 ‘Roger Stone vs. the world: inside the conspiracy-filled mind of legendary GOP trickster’ at I pointed out Caro’s omission of Estes in Lobster 65 at the end of 28 probably wasn’t the ‘third tramp’ on […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: Some Warren Commission stuff……… Anthony Frewin A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination Philip Shenon New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2013 Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 625 pps. The subtitle is misleading. It should read, more correctly, The Secret History of the Warren Commission. But hold on, that’s not even […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a coup to bring British troops onto the streets’, 16 August 1974. Page 106 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 At the centre was poor old Harold Wilson whose mind, according to Wheen’s diagnosis, was ‘a simmering goulash of halfremembered incidents and unexplained mysteries’. With Wilson in a folie à trois were Penrose and Courtiour, ‘poor […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for LSD research. This, of course, sets off – admittedly faint – alarm bells that the HAFMC research had something to do with the CIA’s MK-Ultra ( mind control) project. MK-Ultra These alarm bells go off big time however, when O’Neill brings in Dr Jolyon West – the man who conducted the notorious experiment […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Doppelgangers Hillary Clinton’s apparent fainting spell during the 9/11 commemoration in September led to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away […]

German links to the Hammarskjöld case

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] airfield between Kolwezi and Ndola, even though reports indicate that no Katangese-held airport or airfield suitable for jets existed in that area. One airfield particularly comes to mind, Kipushi, where the Katangese government had raised its temporary headquarters. The distance between Kipushi and Ndola, there and back, is approximately 404 km. Nevertheless, even if […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] purely partisan political purposes or personal gain’. There had been what amounted to a ‘kind of privatization of national security’. (p. 253) Rudy Giuliani immediately springs to mind in this regard. This was to lead to her giving evidence at Trump’s first impeachment, a key witness whose testimony took 10 hours to deliver. But […]

The Mandelson legacy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Here, for example, is his memo to general secretary Larry Whitty dated 19 September 1986: ‘If you are able to see John Booth today please bear in mind the following: 1) NUJ Chapel is meeting this morning and we need to see the outcome of that meeting first; 2) John has briefed a reporter […]

Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs by Ian N. Richardson et al

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] If the book’s contents are unexceptional, the interesting question is: why has it taken the academic world so long to get here? Two reasons come immediately to mind. The most obvious is that the interest taken by conspiracy theorists (mostly on the American right) in Bilderberg contaminated the subject for academics chiefly concerned with […]

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