The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the Labour Party. Nixon’s treason: still officially unspeakable In 1968, as that year’s presidential election came into view, President Johnson and those around him learned that Richard Nixon was doing his best to frustrate the Vietnam peace talks then underway in Paris. Nixon was afraid that a peace deal would enable the Democrats to […]

Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] had “brought the CIA a good background as former UN ambassador and US representative to China.”’ 5 However, as his campaign developed, Carter pointedly claimed that the Nixon and Ford administrations had used important government positions as though they were a ‘dumping ground for unsuccessful candidates, faithful political partisans, out-of-favor White House aides and […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: INTERVIEW EUU Words Graeme Bowman Photographs Chris Blatt Behindology: the study of hard political realities obscured by layers of hype and spin. Britain’s leading professor on the subject, irascible Scot Robin Ramsay, publishes conspiracy theory magazine Lobster from his front room in Hull. Reading it may just change your view of the world … HO […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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 […]

The Neoconservative Threat to World Order: Washington’s perilous war for hegemony by Paul Craig Roberts

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] is occasionally guilty of conspiratorial speculation – his writing is an impressive mixture of analysis and polemic Through this main narrative are striking by-ways: an essay on Nixon, listing the good things the Nixon regimes did (and it’s quite a list, most of which I had forgotten); and an account of the Reagan administration’s […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: Douglas Valentine Waterville (Oregon):TrineDay, 2009, $24.95 (USA) Dr. T. P. Wilkinson When I was a child the older daughter of my father’s best friend was reading a book called The Secret Language. I remember searching for the book in the school library, but failing to find it, begged Susan to lend me her copy. At […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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 […]

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