View from the bridge

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[…] efforts failed and most did not remain secret; yet policy makers continued to resort to covert actions and to overestimate their ability to keep the U.S. role hidden. Not only is an American academic writing this, she is getting good reviews and lots of attention. This is another example of the climate changing. Twenty […]

The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sometimes with newspaper clippings or photos attached. Each person had their National Insurance number and other personal data to identify them. The source of the information was hidden by code numbers although Kerr has given a list of these to the ICO. 20 Steve Kelly, 43, from Essex, was one who received a copy […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Rishi Sunak, was head boy at Winchester. This tells us a lot about British society and British politics, but society would seem to think it is best hidden away and so it is seldom if ever discussed. And Seldon has over the years contributed to this cover-up. He is the author/editor of some fifty […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] son was pushed against a wall. Sarah was denied her medication. Christmas decorations were smashed. Christmas candles broken. Personal items were stuffed into a mattress, and allegedly hidden, by police. Cash was allegedly stolen. All electronic equipment was confiscated. Sarah was handcuffed so tight it cut off the circulation to her hands. No search […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

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[…] were several individuals removed from the train other than the three individuals previously identified.’ script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material. Holt says he went […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] are largely only pawns, radicalized with weaponized nationalism to face killing and death without squinting in the service of empire. Meanwhile, safely a few steps detached and hidden behind the façade of liberalism or feigned benevolence and endless trails of front organizations, the power players keep their hands clean and faces out of sight. […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] son was pushed against a wall. Sarah was denied her medication. Christmas decorations were smashed. Christmas candles broken. Personal items were stuffed into a mattress, and allegedly hidden, by police. Cash was allegedly stolen. All electronic equipment was confiscated. Sarah was handcuffed so tight it cut off the circulation to her hands. No search […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in supporting the Taliban is now comparatively well-known and widely acknowledged, the role of the Saudis in sponsoring first AQI and later Islamic State (ISIS) still remains hidden, indeed positively taboo. The best way to regard ISIS is as a monster created, at least in part, by a Saudi Frankenstein: a monster that has […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Twenty Year Crisis 1919-1939 and Mark Mazower’s Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present (London: Penguin, 2012) 17 6 points to the hidden assumptions of managerialism: that science can control nature, people can be controlled, and, most recently, that organization is best affected via the market as the most […]

Last post for Oswald

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] served with a subpoena. This proves to be the key to understanding a substantial part of this episode. The FBI’s mail interception program had to be kept hidden (in fact it did not come to light until the 1970s); and doing so meant that the fact that the mis-addressed Nixie parcel had almost been […]

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