Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] some country boys doing the shooting’. He claims he was told about the details by Cliff Carter and it is as the buffs always presumed: frame Oswald, kill Oswald while arresting him, use local law enforcement – interestingly the Sheriff’s Department, not the Dallas Police Department – to control things. ‘The plan was to […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 30 August, 2018 or . 18 For an example of this, see ‘National Enquirer owner admits to “catch and kill” payment to ex-Playmate’ at or . 19 Infamous, as Press Secretary, for holding zero press conferences. See (e.g.) ‘Press Secretary Who Never Held Briefing Leaving Her […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] guided by numbing bureaucratic processes that seemed to reduce the mass murder to soporific tedium. It was the war that sent mainly African-Americans and poor whites to kill ‘gooks’ ostensibly to 5 The Geneva Agreements of 1954 ended the First Indochina War. Central provisions were a ceasefire and withdrawal of French troops. French Indochina […]

lob86South of the Border

Lobster Issue

[…] Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 30 August, 2018 or . 18 For an example of this, see ‘National Enquirer owner admits to “catch and kill” payment to ex-Playmate’ at or . 19 Infamous, as Press Secretary, for holding zero press conferences. See (e.g.) ‘Press Secretary Who Never Held Briefing Leaving Her […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] theory I can remember coming across and may mark the beginning of the current age of conspiracy theories. Like all good conspiracy theories, Gemstone is impossible to kill off and interest in Gemstone continues. Shawn Hamilton, for example, has an essay, ‘A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File turns 40’, in which he discusses […]

View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] in these columns because I have nothing to offer which others don’t have. It has always seemed obvious to me that the US state would destroy – kill, imprison – Assange, one way or another. Pour encourager les autres.50 Recently the appearance of an excellent big piece by Andrew Cockburn, ‘How the media failed […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] Union had no aggressive military intent and had developed its nuclear arsenal in response to NATO’s. The Russia of today is an aggressive, violent, kleptocracy, willing to kill tens of thousands of people – including its own citizens – in pursuit of geopolitical ends and the personal wealth of its leaders. Russiagate ‘Russiagate’ centres […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] politically powerful. I do not believe that the CIA, the military and/or the anti-Castro Cubans did the dirty deed in Dallas but lots of them wanted to kill JFK – and precisely because they saw the Kennedy administration as dragging its feet where Fidel was concerned. Some of this secret diplomacy is discussed in […]

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