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 […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

Lobster Issue

[…] officials to book hookers? Probably not, he concludes. On the other hand, Oliver was coordinating an attempt within the Democratic Party organisation to block the nomination of Senator George McGovern as the party’s presidential candidate in 1972: they knew McGovern In his memoirs Nixon wrote: ’Anyone who knew anything about politics would know that […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] college, is channelled anonymously through the cadre institutions of the Northeast elite and moves to the Midwest. With no traceable political debts he finds himself a US Senator, and before his first term expires he is on the Democratic ticket for president. Obama is the apogee of the Reagan Revolution, the entirely synthetic, digital […]

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