Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] the name of Merritt’s coauthor, Douglas Caddy. For it was Caddy who presented to the US Department of Justice the affidavit of Billy Sol Estes, which named LBJ and others as being the perpetrators of the Dallas killing. As a young lawyer in Washington at the time of Watergate, Caddy worked for the Mullen […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] arrest. They also cite McLendon’s close relationships to legendary Central Intelligence Agency operative David Atlee Phillips, politically connected oil magnate Clint Murchison, Sr., and political advisor to LBJ, Bobby Baker, as circumstantial evidence. McLendon is also alleged to have funded Interpen, the Intercontinental Penetration Force, which aimed to privately overthrow Cuba in the 1960s. […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] thus has never I wrote about Bryan Gould at . 68 69 29 elected as well.’ understood the shift in US foreign policies which took place when LBJ became president. The excellent Jim DiEugenio spelled this out yet again at Consortium News.com.70 Remember the knowledge economy? Tristram Hunt, the recently appointed Labour shadow education […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] actions that John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson could carry out in Vietnam, they were possible because of almost complete lack of public attention.’ 14 Chomsky merges LBJ and JFK as if they had the same intentions and policies. When I read this I thought, ‘I’ll bet Jim DiEugenio has a go at this.’ […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics Jonathan Marshall Note: In my ‘Blackmail and the Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] has been a CIA coup in America! Daniel Ellsberg, who says the coup began on 9-11, has said that Obama is deceiving the American public as Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon did through Vietnam. The 2011 exit date is ‘false’ and ‘Vietnamistan’ lies ahead (as the leaked cables of November 2009 from Afghanistan Ambassador Eikenberry […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which shows that JFK was discussing discussing the possibility of allowing a military coup in Brazil and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: Oh, conspiracy! Robin Ramsay The Guardian has been having an attack of conspiracy theory anxiety. First there was the piece on 18 December by Natalie Nougayrède, the former diplomatic correspondent and later editor of Le Monde, ‘The conspiracy theories of extreme right and far left threaten democracy’.1 The subhead, expressing her thesis, was this: ‘In […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of a nonmatch between the known prints of LBJ crony Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace and the prints listed as ‘unidentified’ obtained by the Bureau from the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. Seven months after receiving […]