A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] language and scope of action for the political opposition in the country as a whole. Already the war against Korea and the great purge, commonly associated with Senator McCarthy, had established the new terms of reference for US Asia-Pacific policy.1 1 By conflating the theatre conflict the US was conducting against the Soviet Union […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 6) p. 431. On the long-running allegations that Clare Boothe Luce helped spark the Cuban Missile Crisis by leaking classified information, see Max Holland, ‘A Luce Connection: Senator Keating, William Pawley, and the Cuban Missile Crisis’, Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 1, no. 3, 1999, pp. 139–167. JSTOR, at (free sign-up required). 33 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] CIA files and released as a result of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, established in 1975 and chaired by Senator Frank Church. It can be found on page 6 of the scanned documents available at . 13 4 minerals).14 Neither Chilean workers nor peasants derived many […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] leading PR outfit for Israel in the UK, and a profile of him 40 shows how a section of the Israeli lobby works: 38 On this see Senator Carl Levin (Dem.) at Levin argues – and has been arguing for years – that the torture programme was designed to get false confessions. 39 From […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] to meddle in American politics . . . appeared to joke about gun lovers assassinating Hillary Clinton, and called President Obama “the founder of ISIS” and linked Senator Ted Cruz’s father to the Kennedy assassination’. (p. 202) There had never been anything like this. It is ‘All of it. Utterly. Inescapably. Completely. Unbelievable.’ (p. […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] of some present-day US Republicans. One is Curt Weldon, for 20 years until 2007 the Republican member of Congress for the seventh district of Pennsylvania.1 Another is Senator Ron Johnson, the current senior US senator from Wisconsin.2 Both have come to wider attention recently thanks to the efforts of a third Republican, the conservative […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] with the reactionary Christian Right Republican Congresswoman, Michelle Bachmann. This was a stepping stone to going to work for one of Horowitz’s old friends, the racist Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, as his communications director. Once again Horowitz made the introductions. This was an important step for Miller, who apparently had (and presumably still […]

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