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 […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] speeds around the US in the 1940s and 50s with a crew of eight women. Later on we bump into speculation on the pro-Nazi sympathies of the Kennedy family (mildly interesting), L. Ron Hubbard, Otto Skorzeny, and David Icke’s view of Bill Clinton, George Bush and the Skull and Bones Society. The illustration are […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] (q.v). Anti-Soviet advocate of a policy of “imperial isolationism’ for British Commonwealth and Empire; attempted to negotiate Anglo-German peace through United States Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Kennedy in May-June 1940, with the approval of Halifax (q. v.) and Butler. Warned off by Prime Minister Churchill. (De Courcy; Lobster 16; Costello) Domville, Admiral Sir […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] police vice squads may turn out to be true but he doesn’t have the evidence. The temptation to make dramatic statements shows elsewhere. On p.262, of the Kennedy assassination, he writes: ‘Meanwhile, General Walker, the far-right American Security Council (including General Lansdale and Air America Chairman Admiral Felix Stump) and Texas ultras started plotting […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] and the racist right. As with the ARS, the influx of the racist right into Monday Club led to a faction fight. In 1973, fronted by George Kennedy Young, the enthusiasts of “the bridge” attempted — but narrowly failed — to take-over the Club. I presume that essentially the same people were involved in […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] administration talks on big environmental issues: LESLEY ABDELA – Liberal candidate East Herts 1979, founder of the 300 Group (to increase the number of women MPs) 1980; Kennedy School of Government Harvard 1992; Electoral Reform Society 1995; British Council 1995; Deputy Director of Democracy UN Interim Administration Kosovo 1997. MAURICE ASH (see above). GRAHAM […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] whereby we hate in others what we fear in ourselves. In a key moment of Stone’s Nixon, Anthony Hopkins, as Nixon, talks to a portrait of John Kennedy. ‘When they look at you, they see what they want to be; when they look at me they see what they are.’ The essence of Nixon’s […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] was murdered by Oswald working for the KGB. Chamish shows in some detail that the Rabin killing was a variation on the Sirhan Sirhan attack on Robert Kennedy. Yes, Rabin’s ‘assassin’ was firing at him at close range; but he didn’t fire the fatal shots. Chamish shows that the ‘assassination’ was meant to be […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] ignorant of the things that have been done in Northern Ireland by the British state. As far as I am aware only Roger Faligot (see above) and Kennedy Lindsay have produced substantial accounts of some of the counter-insurgency operations in Northern Ireland, and these fragments from Wallace and Holroyd serve to show that even […]