Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] operations against the new government in Havana. The embargo and the preparations that led to CIA’s aborted Bay of Pigs invasion in the first months of the Kennedy administration, have set the tone of US–Cuba relations since then. Officially the embargo was decreed because the new government of Fidel Castro nationalised assets claimed by […]

Last Second in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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 […]

View from Bridge

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[…] The readable piece is at . 19 We don’t know the source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 20 6 Jeffrey Sachs and CIA – the good old stuff lindsay O’Rourke 2017 […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] Paine award from the Emergency Civil Rights Committee. Being a supporter of the Cuban Revolution, he used his acceptance speech to refer to the assassination of President Kennedy, which had happened the previous month. He told the audience that he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald, 2 although he did not think […]

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 […]

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 […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Paine award from the Emergency Civil Rights Committee. Being a supporter of the Cuban Revolution, he used his acceptance speech to refer to the assassination of President Kennedy, which had happened the previous month. He told the audience that he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald, 2 although he did not think […]

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