A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] dinner tab at the fundraiser in San Francisco L had arranged for the Contras after which L got a death threat over the phone while waiting in Senator Kerry’s outer office for a secret rendez-vous) and of what N told us — how Carlos was released from his hundred-year sentence to peddle cocaine to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] provisional or affidavit Democratic ballots were not counted. Available evidence also suggests that the vast majority of suppressed voters would have voted or tried to vote for Senator Bernie Sanders.’ 1 The IMF’s mea culpa Among the casualties of the financial crash of 2007/8 has been the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which got most […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] as he and Weberman did in their book – that two of the ‘tramps’ were Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. Jaffee contacted Richard Perle, then working for Senator Henry Jackson, who was told to take it to the FBI. In the FBI’s report of this, Sam Jaffee is quoted as saying that he contacted […]

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