Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] could join at some point in the future.12 However, Bush left office in January 1993 and under his two successors the position was transformed. In 1996 President Clinton openly advocated expanding NATO to include the members of the old Warsaw Pact. By 2005 Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] has employed an Israeli ex-military intelligence official as Labour’s ‘social listening and media organising manager’. See or . 5 Marc Rich was famously pardoned by President Bill Clinton in January 2001, on his final day in the White House. Rich’s Wikipedia entry tells some of the story of Duncan’s former employer . 6 A […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] there’s big money for ex-leaders there, too. George W Bush has always had enormous family sources to draw upon from his father’s post-White House dealings, and Bill Clinton has reaped huge rewards from speechmaking around the world. And not just former presidents: Henry Kissinger is still making piles as a consultant almost 40 years […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: Tittle-Tattle Tom Easton Balls to the wall The Daily Mirror neatly summed up the post-election fate of two of New Labour’s so-called big beasts when its 15 June headline read: ‘Ed Balls has a new job: Ex-shadow chancellor follows David Miliband to America after election defeat’.1 Milband’s job with the International Rescue Committee (see Lobsters […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] 36 Amen to that; but this is the man who, while its American correspondent, ran into the Telegraph all the nonsense coming out of the Republican’s anti- Clinton conspiracy. See . 37 Con Coughlin, ‘Can we still trust the CIA?’ at . ‘intelligence’ linking 9/11 to Iraq to provide the pretext for the invasion […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess Sherman McCall, Phillip R. Pittman, Richard Wahl, Francis Powers, Jan Cemper-Kiesslich * This paper refutes all objections to our DNA identification of Rudolf Hess.1 Inter alia we will: 1. Reveal the reporting error prompting many false charges. 2. Explain how Hess’s chest scars were overlooked. 3. Explain the […]

The Solipsist Revolution: Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] election campaign for his first term had begun, Stone registered a donation-seeking website called StoptheSteal.org and used it to pump out claims that Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton would cheat to win the election if the results looked too close to call. Which was exactly what George W. Bush had been accused of doing […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] dough One of the central threads of the original QAnon nonsense was that senior figures in the US Democratic Party in Washington (including then presidential candidate Hilary Clinton, obviously) were part of a paedophile network in the 5 US and that it was this network which really ran America. The idea of a paedophile […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] administration would, from day one, have been closely involved in the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine conflict in particular. Gore had been highly active here during the Clinton administration and was acutely aware of how close agreement nearly came in 1999-2000. Gore’s links with the region, and a – by no means inconceivable – […]

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