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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]

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[…] uses the word ‘oil’ once. By their omissions . . . . *new* Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran.5 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] 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 crisis31 The House of Commons […]

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] But this rhetoric is not matched by analysis of some of the historical events. The biggest threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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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 […]

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