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 […]

Conspiracy theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] issued by the CIA to all its agents and assets, with advice on how to respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that those criticising Warren’s conclusion should be described as ‘conspiracy theorists’. The author notes that this turned out to be ‘one of the most successful […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] well as a lot of speculation. His analysis of the shooting and its immediate aftermath is hard to follow and it made me realise how difficult the JFK assassination material must be for those coming to it for the first time. Another Met spook outed M ark Metcalf has written an interesting piece on […]

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[…] the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ – From Mastermind to “The Colossus” he wrote: The 2 key pieces of evidence Nelson uses to incriminate Johnson are wrong. As Groden […]

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[…] the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ – From Mastermind to “The Colossus” he wrote: The 2 key pieces of evidence Nelson uses to incriminate Johnson are wrong. As Groden […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] note, we learn that Operation ARTICHOKE was so-named because it was Dulles’s favourite, er, vegetable. So there’s that. But the main dish here is, of course, the JFK assassination. Dulles effectively disappears while the book’s narrative follows Oswald to Russia and back, then hovers over Lee Oswald’s associates when he settles in Dallas – […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were not discouraged by the Kennedys as they wanted LBJ off the ticket for the 1964 election. This simmering scandal threatened to end LBJ’s political career, but JFK was killed. When he was eventually prosecuted, Baker kept his mouth shut and LBJ just managed to keep the lid on things The Nixon regime which […]

The Secret Team

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sometimes in ways that undermine those activities, and very often ways that interfere with and muddle them. The U-2 incident Prouty came to the attention of the JFK assassination researchers because he was the most senior ex-intelligence/military figure to write about the Dallas events as an obvious conspiracy and cover-up. The book also drew […]

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