The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] again in November 1964.6 On p. 70 of his book (see footnote 2) Mr Margolick records how, as Eisenhower’s VicePresident, Richard Nixon had also courted the black vote in the 1950s, manoeuvres which included joining the NAACP and making ostentatious fact-finding visits to Africa. Dr King, watching Nixon’s careful repositioning, presciently observed: 6 Continues […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] dead and Amanda shooting herself.13 The America Whitelash led to the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016 – albeit with a minority of the popular vote, we must always remember. Even with Trump defeated in the 2020 election, Lowery nevertheless concludes that ‘it’s hard to look at the horizon and not see […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

Lobster Issue

[…] dead and Amanda shooting herself.13 The America Whitelash led to the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016 – albeit with a minority of the popular vote, we must always remember. Even with Trump defeated in the 2020 election, Lowery nevertheless concludes that ‘it’s hard to look at the horizon and not see […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] nationalists could all be put back in the bottle and the whole terrible experience could be put behind them. Instead Trump became President, despite losing the popular vote quite decisively, installed in office by the Electoral College. For the Republican establishment, this posed a serious problem. Did they continue to oppose Trump, did they […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] maps the virtual tripling in party membership that liberated its finances from years of indebtedness and assorted financial embarrassments5 that saw Labour take a 40 per cent vote share in the 2017 general election.6 Two years earlier under Ed Miliband’s leadership Labour had barely topped 30 per cent and Corbyn’s many party foes in […]

Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] and the Liberal Democrats backing the government. But 50 Conservative MPs rebelled, either by voting against the motion or abstaining; and in the three-hour debate before the vote they lined up to condemn the measures. Graham Brady MP, one of the senior grey suits in the powerful 1922 Committee, stated: ‘It is essential Parliament […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the 2020 presidential election. As early as September 2020, Navarro was apparently convinced that the Democrats were getting ready ‘to steal the election with absentee ballots and vote harvesting’. (p. 209) Their plans could still have been thwarted, if only Trump had not been betrayed by so many of those around him. Mitch McConnell […]

On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] provides the evidence to conclude that a tide of money – mostly funneled through conservative interest groups such as the Bradley Foundation, Turning Point USA, True the Vote, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and others – are doing for election denial what the tobacco and fossil fuel industries did for science denial. She […]

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