Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] phones at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate complex? The DNC was a bureaucratic entity, not where the political action was. In his memoirs, Richard Nixon recalled his reaction to learning of the burglary: ‘……..Anyone who knew anything about politics would know that a national committee headquarters was a useless place to […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] difficult to tell precisely where the Luce empire’s overseas intelligence network ended and the CIA’s began’.25 During Eisenhower’s second term, Time magazine’s cover had featured vice-president Richard Nixon no fewer than five times. There was no doubt about where this was heading, and in October 1960 the Luces’ endorsement of presidential candidate Nixon was […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Even as the last US Americans2 0 and their Vietnamese retainers were being ferried out of Saigon forty years ago, there was no talk of surrender. Richard Nixon always spoke of ‘peace with honour’: this is the perfume of a bully applied to the skin of a coward. As far as the White House, […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Mark Felt – whether he was ‘deep throat’ or not – leaking to Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post as the FBI tried to undermine President Nixon whose aspirations to gain control of parts of the deep state threatened both the FBI and CIA. Continues at the foot of the next page. The […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: The Christian Right Revisited John Newsinger The Christian Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: Operation Mindfuck QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump Robert Guffey London and New York: OR books, 2022, £15 (p/b) £8 (ebook) Robin Ramsay The author’s name may ring a bell.1 He has been researching the wonderful world of American conspiracy theories for about 25 years and in this book he takes on the biggest […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[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 […]