The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] little harsh on this).3 Even so, as Cox describes Kennedy’s conflicts with most of the major lobbies in America, from the mafia to US Steel, his eventual murder feels unsurprising. He does not suggest a solution. He asks (p. 284): ‘Was there an assassination conspiracy, as Bertrand Russell and his Committee feared?….’ This is […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was coming from; perhaps he had always been a hatchet-man for the hard right of the Conservative Party? I decided to reread his tremendous Blind Eye to Murder, published back in 1981, and actually bought a second hand copy. It only served to remind me of what he had once been before his sad […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the time.) Having worked on this issue for a long time, it’s hard for me to see it; but from Anthony Frewin’s essay on the Frank Olsen murder of the 1950s, through Simon Matthews’ piece on the US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s regime was responsible for the murder of at least 3000 Chileans who had backed Allende, while thousands more were imprisoned and tortured and tens of thousands driven into exile. It was not […]

Accessibility Toolbar