General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] had once signed a treaty with Sikorski and much later was able to declare on his honour that he had no knowledge of any Soviet attempt to kill the general. Both aircraft were parked close to a high wire fence which marked the frontier with neutral Spain and they were under observation by German […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] British intelligence service. Of one thing we can be certain: it was Dennis Robertson who moved Polly Peck funds from Britain to Cyprus.’ Postscript: a licence to kill? In 2009, the BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera 3 Elizabeth Forsyth says: ‘I must make one matter clear, I was instrumental in handing documentation which I […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] the essay in the early 2000s. In an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this year, Mearsheimer revealed that the editor of The Atlantic offered them a “$10,000 kill fee” if the publication didn’t print the article. Mearsheimer said, “That’s the fastest $10,000 we ever made.” 6 But why would something as mainstream as The […]

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 […]

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