Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00 I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus far … Read more
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] 52, page 33, talking about American PR versus China’s PR, she wrote: ‘….. could succeed far more quickly than people suppose if the stunningly good looking Democrat Senator Barack Obama becomes its first non-white president. Whatever his qualities or racial mix, visually he strikes a chord with Africans, Arabs and Hispanics, as well as […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
See Note (1) Introduction In The Wealth of Nations, a book supposed to underpin modern free-market philosophies, Adam Smith thought that the separation of management from ownership would inevitably gave rise to negligence and corruption. The owners of Enron were the shareholders, represented by pension funds, banks and trust funds. The chief managers of Enron … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently the … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] 18 ‘Letter to NTSB from Lisa Perry, August 15, 2000’, posted on Michael Hull’s website, http://hometown.aol.com/bardonia/perry.htm 19 See Michael Hull’s Website, http://members.aol.com/bardonia/meyer.htm 20 Ibid. 21 Letter to Senator Inhofe by Reed Irvine from Accuracy in Media 30 December 30, 2000, posted to Donaldson’s Website. http://twa800.com/news/irvine-12-30-00.htm 22 Ibid. 23 ‘TWA Flight 800 Analysts Say FBI […]