Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] . 17 Powers (see note 7) p. 189. The ‘four’ to which Powers refers to here are his possible suspects in JFK’s assassination: ‘organised crime and crooked labour unions’, ‘Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro’ and ‘Castro himself’. 18 19 whom were intelligence assets of some kind, and that Oswald himself was some kind of […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] pursued two consistent foreign policy principles since the French Revolution. The first is to control the seas and the access to cheap (or free) raw materials (including labour) throughout the world. The second has been to keep Europe divided against itself both to assure access to its markets and to weaken potential imperial competitors. […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] in Europe about which I know little and would have difficulty checking. In this situation the reviewer heads for familiar territory and Cottrell has included the anti- Labour events of the 1960s and 70s which I know pretty well; and his account is error-strewn and fanciful. In the first two pages of that section […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] book on the work of the 9/11 Commission. Another one, impressive in another way, is Paul Thompson. His 9/11 History Commons timeline is the product of enormous labour 6 and his four-part interview appropriately wraps up the Gold compilation. In offering us chapter-by-chapter research links for those wishing to dig deeper, Gold encourages others […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] were normally made available for inspection in the PRO, now called the National Archives, after 50 years. This was reduced in 1967 to 30 years by the Labour government after a successful campaign by historians and others. Subsequently the Dacre Review recommended that the 30 year rule should be replaced by 15 years. The […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] is unprecedented, but it certainly reflects the times we are living through. John Newsinger is a retired academic working on things Trumpian and (slowly) on the foreign, colonial and defence policies of the Labour Party. David Charter, ‘Joe Biden: Army will have to drag Trump out if he loses’, The Times 13 June 2020 7