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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

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[PDF file]: […] crime. 6 then the memoir proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the 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.

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 […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act’. Surely, if there had been some sort of all pervasive hidden conspiracy then ‘these people could have been saved by the millions; but instead they were taken completely by surprise’. (p. 38) The people he was murdering […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the 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 […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

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[PDF file]: […] MI6 was monitoring Howard Marks and James McCann. In November 1973, Marks was arrested by the Dutch police for his part in smuggling cannabis to the US, hidden in loud speakers for rock concerts. Shortly before this, (according to the prosecution at his later trial in the UK) MI6 had severed contact with him. […]

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