lob86View from Bridge

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[…] reached out to Moscow and Beijing — there is no reason to believe that he was going to pull out of Vietnam, call off the dogs in Cuba, stop sending money for “internal security” in the Third World, build fewer bombs, or spend less money on the Pentagon. This is mostly tosh and shows […]

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[…] reached out to Moscow and Beijing — there is no reason to believe that he was going to pull out of Vietnam, call off the dogs in Cuba, stop sending money for “internal security” in the Third World, build fewer bombs, or spend less money on the Pentagon. Much of that could be falsified […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] CIA documents about the Kennedy assassination are some in which CIA officers wondered if Oswald hadn’t done the deed for Castro, or out of sympathy for Castro’s Cuba. In a piece for Politico.com1 journalist Philip Shenon and historian Larry Sabato discussed both the documents and how such speculation was suppressed in favour of the […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] CIA documents about the Kennedy assassination are some in which CIA officers wondered if Oswald hadn’t done the deed for Castro, or out of sympathy for Castro’s Cuba. In a piece for Politico.com1 journalist Philip Shenon and historian Larry Sabato discussed both the documents and how such speculation was suppressed in favour of the […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Carl . . . Carl was the head recruiter and trainer of the Bay of Pigs invasion for the assassins and saboteurs that were going into Cuba for the pre-invasion to 1 2 3 4 And there are others. Among the many lists of putative advance knowledge, see or . 5 . The […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to assist Jamaica during the 1970s oil crisis without demands for so-called ‘structural adjustment’. Manley was also opposed by the US regime because of his support for Cuba and membership in the Non-aligned Movement. be very complicated to sell multiple attacks on resource-rich countries without the capacity to prevail at home. On the other […]

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] frustrated the colonists by 4 This occurred again in the wake of the Haitian Revolution (17911804). Spain successfully suppressed the independence movement among the creole elite in Cuba for decades by threatening to abolish slavery. White Cuba – concentrated in the western half of the island – included many who regularly agitated for annexation […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] of the work he had done for the Jewish community.80 Kennedys (a) Whodunit? After JFK was assassinated a disinformation campaign began to tie Lee Harvey Oswald to Cuba and the KGB. His history as a defector to the USSR and his role as the one-man branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] describes in detail how JFK tried to shift American foreign policy away from its Cold War positions. His attempt to change US policy towards the Soviet Union, Cuba and Vietnam, against the wishes of the military, the CIA and most of his foreign service, was or 16 Reviewed by Michael Carlson in Lobster 56 […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] running radio stations. He was a key figure in setting up The Voice of Liberation, which broadcast into Guatemala in 1954, and Radio Swan, which transmitted into Cuba from 1961. Both these stations were modelled on the format that McLendon had pioneered at KLIF Texas: popular music punctuated by breezy news bulletins from a […]

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