Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: Holding pattern Garrick Alder Coincidence theories W ith the jury’s declaration of guilt in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we can now move forward to the vital next step, which is to spend the rest of his sorry lifespan (and maybe longer) listening to lunatics claiming he was totally innocent and it […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] hers as ‘waterboarding is how we’d baptise terrorists’ (p. 178), McCain on occasion sang from the same hymn sheet, indeed actually sang ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran’ to the tune of the Beach Boys ‘Barbara Ann’ to appreciative audiences. McCain certainly repudiated claims that Obama was a Muslim, but his campaign, courtesy of […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism Michael Carlson D iscussing the recently released Senate report on American torture, my friend Michael Goldfarb quoted Senator Frank Church, speaking when his Senate committee’s report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel Schorr […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] is an Israeli fabrication that the Obama administration resisted but that the Trump administration has wholeheartedly embraced. This ‘Hisbollah threat’ is also part of the demonization of Iran, that is once against Israeli-inspired – with the enthusiastic assistance of Israel’s covert allies, the Saudis. Instead of exploring any of this, what Woodward gives us […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] being forced to compromise in Korea – a considerable psychological blow for white supremacy – the US began a successful season of imperial expansion: inter alia returning Iran to the control of the oil cartel and Guatemala to United Fruit. Nationalist movements in Ghana and Congo were subdued.2 5 With the exception of Puerto […]