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. […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] See his Guardian obituary, 3 January 2006. 46 Summer 2010 Pierson acted as a banker.1 5 Langford was also closely connected to, and a key supporter of, Senator John Tower (Texas-Republican). Tower served in the US Navy between 1943 and 1946 and remained an active member of the US Navy Reserve until 1990. During […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] middle aged don, is sitting in his study, while in the grounds of his mansion beside Lake Tahoe the extended Corleone family are celebrating a wedding. The senator for Arizona comes in and gives Michael a load of abuse about incomers and how they aren’t wanted in his state. Corleone shows no emotion and […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] a Sarasota school’s reading programme.2 In another DC hotel on September 11 the director general of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), General Mahmood Ahmed, was having breakfast with Senator Bob Splitting some of these long URLs to fit the footnote space may produce problems. If the link fails, copy the URL and paste it into […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] “You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.” Iraq was in the 21st century. Senator John Kerry voted for it. Hypocrisy of this magnitude has to be respected.34 True enough. But the comments of US secretaries of state are intended for […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] flight that accidentally wandered off course when the Soviets shot it down without provocation. Minnesota 23 For the full text of the Moscow press conference, see Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey publicly denounced the Soviet Union for what he claimed was an unprovoked attack. Knowing better, Mitchell and Martin arranged a meeting with Congressman Wayne […]

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