Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] apartheid, Rosenhead is going to be taught how to think correctly about anti-semitism. All this quasi-legal activity expelling people for not toeing the line, has Author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. This was reviewed at . 70 or 71 On whom see or . 72 or 73 25 cost the Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] the Labour line on anti-semitism actually is these days, the business of expelling Jewish members who won’t toe that line John Booth spotted this. 41 Author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. This was reviewed at . 42 or 43 14 continues. The latest such victim is Jonathan Rosenhead, emeritus Professor of […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] vol. 1, no. 3, 1999, pp. 139–167. JSTOR, at (free sign-up required). 33 11 following year. After Kennedy’s death, Harry brought Time and Life magazines into the LBJ camp. This was partly out of pragmatism (the Luces still had personal connections to the new president), and partly because Johnson seemed likely to reinvigorate the […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] had visited Texas Ranger Clint Peoples who, 15 years or so later, would persuade Estes to talk about another of the murders committed by ‘Mac’ Wallace for LBJ. Peoples also subsequently died in a one–car crash and all his papers disappeared. And so on. The book is a shower of fragments including: hanky-panky with […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics Jonathan Marshall Note: In my ‘Blackmail and the Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which shows that JFK was discussing discussing the possibility of allowing a military coup in Brazil and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: Oh, conspiracy! Robin Ramsay The Guardian has been having an attack of conspiracy theory anxiety. First there was the piece on 18 December by Natalie Nougayrède, the former diplomatic correspondent and later editor of Le Monde, ‘The conspiracy theories of extreme right and far left threaten democracy’.1 The subhead, expressing her thesis, was this: ‘In […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of a nonmatch between the known prints of LBJ crony Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace and the prints listed as ‘unidentified’ obtained by the Bureau from the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. Seven months after receiving […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Doppelgangers The murky history of the deployment of lookalikes for political purposes has always fascinated me, and is an area that I explored a little in ‘ LBJ: Doubles and Disinformation’ in Lobster 67. The first week of December saw a startling chance pair of photographs taken by the same snapper, showing two ‘Barack […]
