Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] a Labour government in place with a working majority until 2011-2012. Brown – who in Mattinson’s account is surrounded by US advisers and even calls an ailing Senator Edward Kennedy at one point to ask if a general election should be called in the UK – decided against an autumn 2007 general election.2 2 […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] attempted to make public related to Nixon’s sabotage of the Paris peace talks held in late 1968, while Nixon was running for the presidency against Democratic challenger Senator Hubert Humphrey. Dr Kissinger’s breach of confidence – essentially betraying another traitor – unlocks the dark heart of the entire Watergate scandal. At the centre of […]

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 […]

On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] dollars that have funded dozens of antidemocratic ‘election integrity’ projects (and also litigation), the support of conservative anti-vote candidates, and the Arizona recount itself. Mayer quotes US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who says, ‘It’s a massive covert operation run by a small group of billionaire elites. These are powerful interests with practically unlimited resources who […]

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 […]

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