South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the day proved to be just as interesting, if in a different way. Jim Garrison, the District Attorney, who conducted his own investigation into the assassination of Kennedy, invited me, along with a couple of FBI agents, to his office to view some film. I am not at liberty to 32 ‘It Couldn’t Happen […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] there has been a CIA coup in America! Daniel Ellsberg, who says the coup began on 9-11, has said that Obama is deceiving the American public as Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon did through Vietnam. The 2011 exit date is ‘false’ and ‘Vietnamistan’ lies ahead (as the leaked cables of November 2009 from Afghanistan Ambassador […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] the early 1970s;7 and in the United States the decline began in the mid 1960s, caused by – yes, of course – the state’s cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.8 John Naughton’s comment that ‘sometimes governments and organisations do conspire’ is the place to start. If ‘sometimes’ is in fact frequently, perhaps routinely – and […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Emperor in more fulsome terms. Washington DC was, he told his audience, looked on by the whole world as ‘a shining city on a hill’. He praised Kennedy for putting a man on the moon and Reagan for winning the Cold War. America was truly ‘the indispensable nation’. After 9/11 the British people had […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] the day proved to be just as interesting, if in a different way. Jim Garrison, the District Attorney, who conducted his own investigation into the assassination of Kennedy, invited me, along with a couple of FBI agents, to his office to view some film. I am not at liberty to 32 ‘It Couldn’t Happen […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] became the minority view, that his funding dried up and he was forced to ‘go private’. Caro flunks it Looking at the role of LBJ in the Kennedy assassination has proved to be too difficult for Robert Caro. In The Passage of Power (2012), the fourth volume of his widely lauded biography of LBJ […]

The view from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Meeja news Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the German conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, did an interview with Russia Today1 in which, among other things, he said this. ‘Germany is still a kind of a colony of the United States, you’ll see that in many points; like […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? 14 15 ‘How spies used Facebook to steal Nato chiefs’ details’ 16 7 the American model of politics. So why not say so? ‘Because I love […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] a huge amount of work with the extant literature and many new sources. O’Sullivan begins in 1968 and the election which brought Nixon to power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to […]

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