Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] and the May 1971 Ramparts magazine featured a cover story on South Vietnam’s ‘Marshal Ky: The Biggest Pusher in the World.’ The major media ignored everything until Senator Ernest Gruening, a maverick from Alaska, opened hearings. At that point the Washington Post and NBC News ‘discovered’ this story, but soon buried it. Only the […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
Colin Challen MP First, buy your senator It wasn’t long after their election in 2000 that the business backgrounds of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney became mired in controversy. Cheney’s business career was not as long as Bush’s, but it personifies the role of crony capitalism endemic to U.S. politics. Cheney’s role as […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] (father of George W. with at that time only the CIA directorship on his political CV), his former Langley colleague Ray Cline, Perle, Ledeen, Congressman Jack Kemp, Senator John Danforth and Senator Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson. The last was a key figure in the US military-industrial complex, often known as the Senator for Boeing. A […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] that, and more, we get. LBJ was a seriously strange person. What we don’t get is a decent explanation of how Johnson got rich after becoming a senator. He mentions that LBJ got rich and offers a brief explanation: LBJ bought a radio station and told people to buy advertising on it if they […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] reportedly never informed that drug agents were now acting as cloak-and-dagger operators for the CIA and National Security Council. ‘There was no reporting responsibility to anyone’, said Senator Paul Tribble (Republican-Virginia). ‘There were no controls on how the money was spent or for what purpose.'(25) The DEA’s active role was initiated by Edward Hickey, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] agreed, judging the Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee to be unauthorized persons whose orders he was not required to obey. He feared that secrets revealed to Senator Church, in particular, would be placed in the public domain in other words, made available to the Soviets. In the Fall of 1977 Helms was […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] is classified, and the US government will neither confirm nor deny their existence. The Human Potential Foundation In October 1992, the Human Potential Foundation (HPF), chaired by Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, embarked on a project to deliver to the White House compelling evidence of the reality of UFOs, in the hope of […]