The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Meeja news Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the German conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, did an interview with Russia Today 1in 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 for example, the majority of […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the innocent delight in […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 11 attacks in the United States,1 the 15th anniversary generated very little mainstream interest. Would the investigation of 9/11 go the way of the President John F Kennedy assassination in 1963: anniversary recycling of old stories with its surviving researchers inhabiting the Grassy Knoll cast as ‘conspiracy theorists’? It seemed likely when those looking […]

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] investigation in detail and I still cannot see that he had a case against Clay Shaw. He had some evidence that Shaw had a conversation about killing Kennedy (him and a thousand others) and – less certainly – some evidence that Shaw and Ferrie had advance knowledge of the events in Dallas. (Them and […]

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] page. 6 7 Attending a NATO meeting in West Germany. 8 Reagan had been lobbied to this effect by 45 Senators and Congressmen including Tip O’Neill, Edward Kennedy and Daniel Moynihan. Politically, the Democrats had an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives. The Republicans had a majority of only 6 in the Senate. […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] access the financial records, which had survived intact. 1 Manson business, for example, led him into the murky world of Sirhan Sirhan and the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968. Meanwhile CHAOS is a great read. O’Neill doesn’t just present his findings; the book is written as a dramatic, almost Chandleresque narrative. Many of […]

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[…] of this in prison. (The italicised comments in brackets are mine.) Professor Norman Stone (historian) Sir John Webster (perhaps the Royal Navy Webster) George Young (presumably George Kennedy Young, former Deputy Chief of SIS) Sir Michael Howard Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr […]

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 […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . . appeared to joke about gun lovers assassinating Hillary Clinton, and called President Obama “the founder of ISIS” and linked Senator Ted Cruz’s father to the Kennedy assassination’. (p. 202) There had never been anything like this. It is ‘All of it. Utterly. Inescapably. Completely. Unbelievable.’ (p. 5). Her chronicle of the Trump […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] back in London, Novotny was selling her story to the News of the World, and further claiming she had slept with the nascent US President, John F Kennedy. She was also hosting sadomasochistic sex orgies with Dibben, including the ‘Man in the Mask’ party, and became a figure on the periphery of the Profumo […]

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