It now looks pretty certain to me that Kennedy’s assassination was the work of a local Texas conspiracy on behalf of, and with the knowledge of, the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Most of the extant evidence for this can be seen on the web site ‘The Men on the Sixth Floor'(1) which advertises the … Read more
[…] PDU meeting at Pacific Harbour outside Suva. At this meeting were Brian Talboys, Sue Wood and Barry Leay, all of the National Party, and Neil Brown, Australian Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman. The PDU meeting provided a kind of alibi for Mara, and both Talboys and Brown lent support to Mara’s […]
From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine … Read more
[…] resigned from CIA, avoiding Angleton’s mole hunt, and went back to Vietnam. At this point political considerations at the highest level came into play. Colby, a self-described liberal, had a fortuitous personal connection with Richard Nixon. (Colby’s son was the roommate of Tricia Nixon’s fiancé, Edward Cox, who in 1970 was Jonathan Colby’s best […]
[…] of the NATO bloc. Had he been on the Soviet side of the Cold War, he would have been long dismissed as an “agent of influence’. Former Liberal MP Michael Winstanley (Lord Winstanley) died in July. A long obituary in the Daily Telegraph of July 19 failed to mention Winstanley’s revelations about his knowledge […]
[…] place, Wallace’s allegations about Clockwork Orange Two go far beyond Ware’s “mainland Labour politicians”. As Ware must know, Wallace claims that MI5 wanted him to smear Labour, Liberal and Tory politicians in Clockwork Orange Two. Ware can get away with this disgraceful distortion only by completely ignoring the Wallace handwritten notes – based on […]
[…] and financial manipulators’. More to the point, he also traces the history of the complicated entanglement of the US government, or more specifically the CIA, with the Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed virtually non-stop from when Japan regained its independence in 1952 until the present day. The CIA was still funnelling up to […]
[…] Benn in his basement office that the Left (with which I retained some sympathy) could better win its battles on defence and foreign policy by associating with liberal middle class anxieties in this area, only to be patronised as only he can patronise. In the event, I was proved right. Social and political changes […]
Harold Smith (Lobster 25) Observer editor Jonathan Fenby replied to a letter from Harold Smith on 17 June, 1993: ‘I don’t think it is a story we want to go back over.’ Back over? On 4 July the Observer ran a third of a page on the political situation in Nigeria, ‘New rules, new date, … Read more
Tom Nairn London: Verso, 2002, hb £13 I really like Tom Nairn. He is wonderful writer and this is a delight. If you’ve read Nairn all you need to know is that this is more of the same. But if you haven’t I’m not sure how to convey what he is about. This is … Read more
