Mob Rule. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] that the Democratic Party never recovered from this convention. The only Democratic candidate who looked even to be in a position to take on the Mob, Robert Kennedy, was shot within minutes of winning the California primary in 1968. At the time, he looked likely to beat the emerging Republican candidate, one Richard Nixon. […]

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Last Talons of the Eagle

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] from most branches of Beatties. This raises the prospect of a kind of ‘virtual history’ emerging, celebrated, retrospectively, by plastic kits. What next……a scale model of the Kennedy assassination (with a lone gunman)? The pioneering work in this field was Green’s War Planes of the Second World War, Vols 1-6 (MacDonald and Co, 1960/62) […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] reasonably presume that Denmark was not the only state to do this…. Is Google in bed with the spooks? John Simkin runs a large Website on the Kennedy assassination In October he sent me an e-mail, of which this is an extract. During my research on the JFK assassination I received information that an […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand in our framework. Edwards doesn’t know about this — or about anything. In short, the notion that Chomsky says […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] for a batch of documents from the Public Record Office recording the minor flap the British Foreign Office got into over the 1967 Jackdaw kit of the Kennedy assassination – model of Dealey Plaza, documents etc. Some of the Great and the Good at the Foreign Office of the day, including Sir Dennis Greenhill […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] ‘private information’ and ‘personal knowledge’. Thus John Bruce Lockhart’s entry for former Deputy Chief of MI6 and founder of Unison and Tory Action in the 1970s George Kennedy Young (‘…an outstanding figure with his great height red hair…’) rather magnanimously depicts him as ‘…at heart a militant Scottish covenanter, believing deeply in the rights […]

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The Anglo-American Establishment From Rhodes To Cliveden

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Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] of room to an account of the size and possible influence of the Rhodes Scholar network.(10) He writes of “the excessive number of Rhodes Scholars in the Kennedy administration.” (11), and of the Rhodes Scholars forming a “recognizable elite in Canada.” (12) Apparently unaware of Quigley, Flint notes that “in each of the white […]

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After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] p. 303 Baker p. 308 Baker p. 348 Baker p. 311 Baker p. 345 Baker p. 348 The Guardian, 1 December 2007 ‘Blacklist?’, hosted by Professor Ian Kennedy, with guests Harold Musgrove, Hilary Wainwright, Hugo Cornwall, Richard Norton-Taylor, George Brumwell, John Macreadie, Michael Noar. Channel 4, 10 September 1988. Baker p. 178 Retired and […]

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Clockwork Orange 2 Jottings

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] misuse of party funds Funds from East Germany to finance Wilson’s campaign McGrath/Paisley/McKeague Are Labour deliberately damaging the economy to assist USSR plot against West? Psychoanalysis: Wilson, Benn, O’Connell, Paisley Treasury study shows economy on verge of collapse Jo Richardson, Joan Maynard USA connection Biaggi, Kennedy, Ribicoff, McCarthy etc Colin Wallace’s Clockwork Orange notebook jottings

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The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA and post-war American hegemony

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] trips to New England in the glorious Fall for Labour MPs and extraordinarily high fees for contributing to Encounter. A few years ago in the John F Kennedy archive in Boston I came across some pleading letters from Roy Jenkins to his fellow Congress pal J. K. Galbraith seeking his help in arranging lucrative […]

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