Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] we will never know it. Postscript Angleton, Epstein, and the creation of Legend Some background on how Legend came about is worth noting since Reader’s Digest, a conservative publication known for its sympathetic coverage of the CIA, heavily bankrolled it. In 1974 Reader’s Digest published John Barron’s book KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet […]

You get the report you pay for

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] on the nation’s doorstep will be an increasingly important asset, helping spread wealth and growth across the UK as a whole’, trills the advertorial, neatly addressing the Conservative government’s shaky, if not calamitous, relationship with ‘growth’ and ‘levelling up.’ How then does the CEBR report substantiate these claims? If one could sum it up […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist Gonzalo Lira, March 2022 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output […]

Blowback: a Warning to Save Democracy from Trump’s Revenge by Miles Taylor

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] vote by nearly three million votes), there were many in the party leadership and apparatus who hoped that he could be persuaded to govern as a conventional conservative Republican. Some of these people joined his administration and found themselves trying to control Trump. Taylor was one of them. They were to be speedily disillusioned: […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] fear, now that 9/11 and ‘terrorism’ have begun losing their effectiveness. (pp. 96/7) So there you have it: the pandemic was a myth. You may argue, as Conservative politicians have begun to do, that leaving the pandemic response to the scientists was a mistake, and that lockdown was unnecessary. But 200,000 dead in the […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue

[…] thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of […]

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