Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Joannides, and a Cuba-related operation he ran. On this Tucker Carlson of Fox News, no less, commented: We spoke to someone who had access to the still hidden CIA documents. Person deeply familiar with what they contain. We asked this person directly. Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of JFK, and […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] been the real target. Why would anyone want to murder a philosopher? The presumption has to be that the assassins believed the nickname ‘Putin’s Brain’ reflects a hidden political reality. As for the claim that Dugin is the World’s Most Dangerous Philosopher, this depends entirely on what one means by ‘World’. If one means […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act’. Surely, if there had been some sort of all pervasive hidden conspiracy then ‘these people could have been saved by the millions; but instead they were taken completely by surprise’. (p. 38) The people he was murdering […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] were then forwarded to Iraq or Iran, usually funneled through Jordan or Cyprus (some shipments of propellant – falsely labelled as chocolate – were, unknown to him, hidden among consignments sent through Asil Nadir’s Unipac in North Cyprus). Exposure and shut-down But by 1986-87 the story was beginning to unravel. Astra Explosives in Kent […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] MI6 was monitoring Howard Marks and James McCann. In November 1973, Marks was arrested by the Dutch police for his part in smuggling cannabis to the US, hidden in loud speakers for rock concerts. Shortly before this, (according to the prosecution at his later trial in the UK) MI6 had severed contact with him. […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] we look back at a time when the talk was more important than the walk, and when scruffy entrepreneurs were courted by greedy venture capitalists, their ties hidden in their pockets.’ The crash was even more severe on Wall Street, and in an ominous foretaste of what was to come, the Federal Reserve Board […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] word. Using it was an open invitation for curious readers to consult an encyclopedia and check what it meant. Anyone who did so would have spotted the hidden connection at once. The received wisdom about the Kennedy administration’s nickname ‘Camelot’ is that it was all the doing of his bereaved wife, Jackie, in an […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice president Johnson. This is a story about American politics and business and what happens when the hidden business funding is threatened with exposure. When the story of Estes’ business dealings began to surface nationally in 1962 after reports in a local Texas paper, […]