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 […]

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 […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[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 ffrom Bridge 89

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[…] 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 […]

Inside the AARB, Volume IV Douglas by P. Horne

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[…] the pin, but only fiction writers have come close to sticking the pin into the donkey’s behind. This was the argument being presented by James Douglass in JFK and The Unspeakable, which I reviewed here in Lobster, an effort to try to narrow what might be called suspects in the macro conspiracy. Work like […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events and Peter Dale Scott draws interesting parallels between them and the JFK assassination. Ray McGovern is a retired senior CIA analyst who prepared Presidential Daily Briefs on intelligence. He was recently arrested for protesting against the appointment of […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] other academics in the field) that ‘conspiracy theory’ is an uncomplicated concept and anything so labelled can be assumed to be nonsense, is irrational and insulting (to JFK buffs in particular). However, with the spectacular crop of really dumb conspiracy theories which have emerged in recent years in the English-speaking world – QAnon etc. […]

Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies by Morag G. Kerr

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] cargo hold. I found much of this boring and some difficult to follow: it needs studying, note-taking. This made me feel the way I did as a JFK assassination beginner encountering the more arcane end of the research, such as the autopsy evidence. I skipped bits of it (Kerr provides handy summaries at the […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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