South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Secondly, it was Steve House, as Assistant Commissioner of Central Operations, whom the Met chose to attempt a soft soap on the use of Operation Kratos ‘shoot-to- kill’ tactics in a 2006 Panorama documentary on the police shooting of Jean-Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station.32 Additionally, I think what can be safely deduced […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] pedophile communists! 9/11 was an inside job! Our body politic is being poisoned by lies. They stalk the land like brain-eating zombies. And we can’t seem to kill them. We have a moral obligation to call bullshit when we see it. Especially or 23 ‘This Is Where Oliver Stone Got His Loony JFK Conspiracies […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] culture’. On the eve of the Iraq war Bush could say, ’I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.’ (I kill, therefore I am.) This, Professor Boggs comments, was merely a reflection of a deep-seated national exceptionalism and shared political consensus. Congress even passed a law in […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] face’. (p. 176) She describes one rally where Trump actually pondered having journalists killed in front of his cheering supporters: ‘I hate them, but I would never kill them’. He ‘pauses **again** and makes a so-so gesture with his hand, as if entertaining a bloodbath in the press pen’, but then rules it out, […]

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