Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] other side of the Pennines from the North East is striking. The account of how Jack Cunningham obtained Whitehaven is legendary: his father, Andrew Cunningham, was GMB boss in the North East, Chair of the Labour Party Northern Region and an Alderman in local government. He arranged the selection for his son who was […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] of resignation, ‘When are we going to have the courage and political maturity to tell the Mexican people that we suffer from a sort of narco-democracy?’ His boss, DIEGO VALADES, Salinas’ fourth Attorney General, quits a few days later. 18 May At his first news conference since replacing the murdered Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] House memorandum which suggested the settlement and compensation for Olsen’s widow, was written by the then Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Dick Cheney, to his then boss, Donald Rumsfeld. The memo recommended an official apology by the president so as to forestall any trial or official hearing on the Olson case. Otherwise, the […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] Labedz, editor of the CIA-funded quarterly about the Soviet bloc, Survey ……feeding lies about my work to columnists on a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House of Lords boss, George Jellicoe, with insinuations that could but not remind him of the difficulties he had himself faced as Burgess’ and Philby’s close colleague in Washington in […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] Within a year, he was forced to resign his first premiership when it emerged that he was being investigated for corruption himself. Craxi had been the political boss in Milan, Berlusconi’s home city, and the place where he made his first fortune in two housing deals. He had achieved this through two means. First […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] made by Estes and who confirm, in general terms, that they contain what Estes says they do.(5) Marcello’s ‘confession’ Elsewhere we learn of a ‘confession’ by Mafia boss, the late Carlos Marcello, that he had Kennedy killed. According to reports of the new book by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, declassified […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it is fascinating. James, as boss of Astra, was one of the minor players in the arms game in the 1980s who got screwed by the bigger players and the covert arms […]