The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] bad penny.2 Let’s start where our author started, with an individual 1 Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK (New York: Carroll and Graf, 205), Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination (Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2008). Jim DiEugenio slices-and-dices the […]

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

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] modern history a name stands out. That of Don DeLillo. In his thanks Shenon marvels at how close DeLillo’s fiction came to the truth about the Kennedy murder and the Warren Commission which was set up to get to the truth of what happened on that day in Dallas.’ Don DeLillo’s 1988 novel Libra, […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] history of strange behaviour by leading LibDems and members of its pre1988 Liberal Party.28 After the bizarre Liberal Party world was revealed by the 1979 Jeremy Thorpe murder trial – the activities of Peter Bessell and the hired gunman among others – the Liberals relied heavily on Cyril Smith as the party’s popular public […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Trinidad in 1972 by accomplices of Michael de Freitas. De Freitas had a long history of criminal activity and violence and was convicted and hung for the murder of his cousin in a separate but related case. There is some speculation, not substantiated, that he was eliminated as part of the FBI COINTELPRO programme […]

View from the Bridge 89

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[…] surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.15 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the murder of its Athens station chief, Richard Welch, in 1975 to discredit not only defecting CIA officer Philip Agee but also, more importantly, Democratic Senator Frank Church, […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

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[PDF file]: […] left-wingers, whom Lacerda accused of being crypto-communists. In 1954, Lacerda had stirred up such controversy against President Getúlio Vargas28 that one of Vargas’s inner circle tried to murder Lacerda. Three weeks later, with the scandal closing in on him, Vargas committed In the event, Kennedy’s Democrats lost four seats in the House and gained […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] found murdered, in what was later proved to be a staged suicide. The serving prosecutor-general at the time opened a case on Kolomoisky in relation to the murder of Serhiy Nikitin, but found insufficient evidence to proceed. On the other hand, Kolomoisky has openly threatened the President of Georgia, telling one journalist during an […]

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