Everything is going to change

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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

The Last Investigation, and, Deep Politics

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] Oliver Stone wave that I am aware of. Fonzi, early in the JFK assassination field as a journalist in Philadelphia, was hired in 1976 to work for Senator Schweiker’s assassination sub-committee of the Church Committee. The disinformation mills set to work and Fonzi began to work through false trails from Clare Booth Luce, Frank […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] reliance on the ‘Lincoln Lawrence’ document as evidence that Oswald was mind-controlled, for instance, seems capricious; and his reliance on Robert Morrow, author of Betrayal and The Senator Must Die!, does not inspire absolute confidence. Morrow is one of a number of characters who have come forward over the years purporting to offer first […]

More JFK Assassination books

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] Shapolsky Publishers, 1992. xvii and 384 pps. Illustrated, index. I’ve never been able to take Morrow’s two previous books seriously — Betrayal, also on JFK, and The Senator Must Die on RFK’s slaying, and the same goes for this. Am I missing something? Introduction by John H. Davis. Palamara, Vincent Michael. The Third Alternative […]

Parafinance: Enron and drilling for red ink

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

The Department of Energy’s Guinea Pigs: a preliminary report

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] were in a confined location and under medical supervision.) Austin LaRocque and Charles Dyer, both former students at the Fernald State School, told a panel headed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Representative Edward Merkey that at that time they could not read or write and the researchers failed to obtain the full consent […]

Feedback

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

Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, and, US Intelligence and the Nazis

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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

The TWA Flight 800 crash: was it missiles?

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 […]

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