The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] hardly surprising. Doing anything but accepting the official 9/11 line would be bad for an academic career – in the same way that being interested in the JFK assassination would be. Being labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still a potential career-killer. As a preamble to discussing 9/11 as a false flag attack, Hughes discusses […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] did that get us? Nowhere.14 But on the failing upwards principle, at time of writing she was Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. * new * JFK news On my mobile smartphone I use the Google Chrome browser which provides suggested news stories. It’s very rare for me to follow any of those […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] War on Secrecy.5 To my knowledge, neither Leigh nor Harding The unz.com website is anti-semitic and ran an essay arguing that it was the Israelis who shot JFK. I referred to this in my ‘View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 88 (under subhead Dallas and Dimona). 3 or 4 This was discussed by Bill […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] War on Secrecy.5 To my knowledge, neither Leigh nor Harding The unz.com website is anti-semitic and ran an essay arguing that it was the Israelis who shot JFK. I referred to this in my ‘View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 88 (under subhead Dallas and Dimona). 3 or 4 This was discussed by Bill […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[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 […]

Conspiracy theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Lobster review: Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

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A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

[PDF file]: […] Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, Robin Ramsay’s Lobster casts its net wider to encompass histories of fascism, the JFK assassination, the Lockerbie bombing and the military’s medical experiments on service personnel. What both Lobsters excel at are finding the links between apparently unrelated events, or […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] support of the traditional political establishment in both the UK and US has been badly rattled in the last year, the words of Edmund Burke, echoed by JFK, remain prescient: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’. Simon Matthews is the author of Psychedelic Celluloid: […]

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