View from the Bridge 87

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[…] 1 Dallas again This is one of the famous ‘three tramps’ photographs taken in Dallas on 22 November 1963, a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it 4 See . See, for example, or . 5 2 there is one other sentence worth noting. During a visit to the Vatican […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Meet the new ‘C’ – same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Keysers. Edward DuCann, Two Lives (Upton on Severn: Images Publishing, 1995) p. 131. 28 This began during JFK’s term in office. It is not widely understood that JFK was more or less a Rooseveltian Democrat who sought – rather like Harold Wilson – to rebuild the US manufacturing economy and rein in the US […]

View from the bridge

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[…] companies15 and thus is highly unlikely to save the NHS from the private healthcare sector. Dallas again – Joesten I was looking through posts on John Simkin’s JFK Assassination Debate16 and noticed some discussion of Joachim Joesten and decided that since I think LBJdunnit (or was one of those who done it), I’d better […]

view from bridge

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[…] companies15 and thus is highly unlikely to save the NHS from the private healthcare sector. Dallas again – Joesten I was looking through posts on John Simkin’s JFK Assassination Debate16 and noticed some discussion of Joachim Joesten and decided that since I think LBJdunnit (or was one of those who done it), I’d better […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] CIA attempts to destabilise New Zealand, through the exploration of the influence of the security and intelligence services on British politics; the role of conspiracy theories; CIA, JFK; the failure of Labour and the rise of NuLab; and out into some of the more arcane areas, notably UFOs and mind control. All the good […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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[…] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lumping together secret state research 7 See 8 See . John Naughton, one of the three directors of the project, tweeted: ‘The minute you get into the JFK stuff and the minute you sniff at the 9/11 stuff you begin to lose the will to live’. See . Yes, both subjects are full of […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which he said clearly that there is no way to answer the question ‘Who started it?’ In a way this is just as irrelevant as ‘Who killed JFK?’ However, what makes Cumings’ book remarkable is that he not only does not reject out of hand the idea that tight coincidence within a penumbra of […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] at university. What he does not mention in that chapter is that between SDS and becoming a professional journalist he had been interested in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. On p. 207 he writes of ‘my first book, The Permanent Campaign, published in 1980’ – omitting his 1976 book on those assassinations, […]

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