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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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: Too Stoned The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War Norman Stone London: Allen Lane, 2010, £30, h/b You remember Norman Stone: one of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite historians and occasional speechwriter for her. I had not read any of his books but I picked up a copy of this in my […]

General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD.

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: ALL RIGHT BOYS General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD. Moreland, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015. 987 pp., illustrated, notes, index. This is a monumental work based on some twenty-five years of archival research and personal interviews. There is much new information here that fills out the sketchier accounts on many […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] 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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