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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

View from the 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 […]

Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] in question, he has been comprehensively taken for a ride along a false trail laid half a century ago. As definitively established by the formidable and meticulous JFK researcher Richard Bartholomew in his privately circulated 1998 monograph ‘Conflicts in Official Accounts of the Cardboard Carton Prints’3 ), the FBI did indeed match some of […]

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[…] radiation was released. Russell is unusual in being willing to discuss UFOs, a subject which is still regarded as infra dig by most writers. Granted, like the JFK assassination research, the subject has attracted its far share of nutters over the years; but aren’t we supposed to be better than just walking away because […]

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 […]

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[…] Mess that Nuland Made’31, which is as good an introduction to the Ukraine events as any. Dallas again Marc Caputo’s ‘CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal’32 discusses the recent release of documents showing that CIA officer George Joannides was involved with and funded a Cuban student group, the […]

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. […]

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

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 […]

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