Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] all the other books on these subjects. Chappaquiddick The most interesting section of the book is actually the part about the events at Chappaquiddick in July 1969. Senator Edward Kennedy and five male companions went on a few days holiday with six female companions. During her husband’s much needed break, Mrs Edward Kennedy was […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
Jane Affleck Here are a few more websites, focusing chiefly on the issue of electronic privacy which is currently being debated both in the U.S. and Europe. Thanks to those who have sent comments, and thanks for contributions to: Terry Hanstock, Ian Tresman and Tony Hollick. Comments and contributions are welcome: I can be contacted … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In … Read more
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] further fringe of the U.S. right, liberally dosed with now rather archaic communist conspiracy stuff. In the pursuit of which, in an open letter to a U.S. senator, Coleman produces one of the great non-sequitors. ‘If you do not believe that Roosevelt was a Communist, view the footage by C.N.N. covering the dedication of […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
The apparent re-election of George W. Bush as US President seems to have its roots in a mechanical failure. On 12 March 2004, a car went out of control on a busy highway and propelled itself in front of an 18-wheeler. The driver – an African-American clergyman called Athan Gibbs – was killed outright. Gibbs, … Read more
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] is trying to bring a civil law suit against Bush, Cheney et al for organising 9-11. Hilton is some time chief of staff for Republican presidential candidate Senator Bob Dole. Kevin Ryan, the head of the Environmental Health Laboratory Div. of Underwriter´s Laboratory, wrote a letter pointing out that the steel in the Twin […]