Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Dwight Eisenhower about one of her alleged extramarital affairs with a left-wing activist – misinformation passed to him by Army Intelligence during World War II – to kill her hopes of being reappointed as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations.21 Hunting homosexuals Even if he could not touch Eleanor during the War, Hoover […]

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 […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] 2006, . 44 John McEvoy, ‘Exposed: the UK firms supplying Elbit Systems’, UK Declassified, 20 November 2025, 45 See Richard M. Bennett, ‘Assassination and the license to kill’, Asia Times, 13 June 2003. This article was found in written evidence presented to the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs by Dr Martha […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] up when you‘re 17 and 1/2 ? We‘ll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.” People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God’s name couldn‘t you have full employment and good schools, good […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Milteer was in Quitman at the time of the assassination. By providing false information, someone essentially gave an alibi to a suspect known to have planned to kill the president. (p. 60) (Emphasis in the original.) Another possibility, in fact the only other possibility, is that there was no ‘someone’, and McMahon had outright […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the threat and more effective cooperation in tackling FIMI. Advancements in the creation and adoption of standardised analytical frameworks, such as ABCDE8, DISARM9 or the Online Operations Kill Chain10 are just some examples. Convened by the European Fact-Checking Standards Network Project (EFCSN), a European Union (EU) funded project, civil society organisations have cooperated to […]

The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] in which the US military and intelligence are thoroughly integrated, a system in which a really radical script simply wouldn’t get made. So who would bother to kill the writer when a word in the right ear would get the project dropped or modified? The answer to this may be that a criminal conspiracy […]

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