Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] Fred Halliday proposes an outline for an anthology of Cold War literature covering five major themes: nuclear war; wars of the third world; belief and betrayal; the spy novel; and the end of cold war. Fred Halliday, ‘High and just proceedings: Notes towards an anthology of the Cold War’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] of the CIA. It appears that one of its main roles is to monitor the clandestine activity of other US government agencies. Coleman’s DIA job was to spy on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operated out of a base in Cyprus. Coleman alleges that the DEA is supervising, and the DIA is manipulating, […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
Iraqi documents Iraq on the Record (<http://democrats.reform.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord>) is a searchable collection of over 200 specific misleading statements made by Bush administration officials about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq. The collection would be even larger if it also included statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. However, if a statement was ‘…an accurate reflection of … Read more
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
Parish Notices Thanks to Al Baron, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Jane Affleck, Robin Whittaker (in particular), Tom Easton and Dr. David Turner for information since the last Lobster. An apology to David Guyatt not publishing his long and interesting reply to the criticism in ‘Feedback’ of his article on alleged US use of chemical weapons … Read more