The view from the bridge

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[…] Pat Buchanan?32 A fake arms race? Larry Hancock is probably best known to readers of this column as the author of a very good book on the Kennedy assassination, Someone Would Have Talked.33 But he writes on a wide range of issues and his perceptions of the geopolitical world are always interesting. In a […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] only world leader to threaten the use of nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower threatened to use them in Korea, and offered them to the French in Vietnam. President Kennedy practised nuclear brinksmanship twice: the authors discuss the Cuban missile crisis, but not the equally serious crisis over NATO access to Berlin, for which the Pentagon […]

Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the American Nationalist Party and according to Caulfield never 1 Monumental indeed. Almost one thousand pages. Jeffrey H. Caulfield M.D., General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy (Moreland Hills, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015). The entry in LHO’s address book is reproduced on p. 75. The work is available from amazon and from the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] way that the 1975 showing of the Zapruder film on US TV was: after the Z film the official version that all the shots came from behind Kennedy became an absurdity. After ‘the lobby’ films no-one can seriously deny the existence of the Israel lobby. The future of Britain’s crisis30 The House of Commons […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine Scott Newton Westplaining The Russo-Ukraine war has become a focus of intense study on the part of mainstream and social media, academics and the twitter commentariat. Much of this has depicted the struggle as a clear case of good (Ukraine) versus bad (Russia). Those who have not accepted […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Most of them are ex-MPs who will have been frustrated with their former colleague’s wayward ways. It is worth noting at this point that another peer, Baroness Kennedy of Cradley, lists being chief of staff to Tom Watson MP, the anti-Corbyn deputy leader of the party, as a remunerated position. Her husband is Baron […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: Treasure Islands Tax havens and the men who stole the world Nicholas Shaxson London: the Bodley Head, 2011, £14.99, p/b ‘Reading Treasure Islands I have realised that injustice is no perversion of the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it […]

Last Second in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] New York: Berkley Publishing, 1976 (paperback reprint). I’m surprised it hasn’t been reprinted more recently. 1 Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, New York: Macmillan, 1980. 2 This was the work done by the firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) that examined the Dallas police tapes and […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 161-166, and Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974 ) pp. 655-657. 2 The Committee claimed 800,000 members. Prominent supporters included future Presidents John F Kennedy and Gerald Ford and the movement’s best known spokesperson was Charles Lindbergh. 3 That Germany declared war on the US, rather than the US declaring war […]

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