The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] returned. Not even true lies One of the Wiki releases from the US State Department is a 2006 briefing paper (06MANAGUA1002, NICARAGUA’S MOST WANTED) from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, which details the life and high crimes of Daniel Ortega. How much of this is true? Given the level of disinformation produced against […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

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[PDF file]: […] Deane Hinton says, ‘I’m personally convinced Endara is an honest man.’ . . . But even Hinton’s own staff is incredulous, creating a deep rift inside the embassy. ‘Just how long can Endara play dumb’? asks a dissident U.S. official. ‘Evidence is sufficiently strong so that a broad sector 63 El Siglo, August 23, […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as innocent as he claims. And – the final straw – how could he be said to be ‘unlawfully detained’ when he detained himself? (In the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid extradition.) Well, my longish piece of about a year ago explains pretty clearly, I think, how and why.1 I’ve little to add […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

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[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]

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[…] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] a telephone kiosk in Bonn in July 1986, West German police had found eight superbly-forged British passports with a genuine Israeli passport and a number of Israeli embassy envelopes. International investigations revealed that the forgeries had been destined for the Israeli embassy in London for use on offensive operations by the Mossad. The Mossad […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] a telephone kiosk in Bonn in July 1986, West German police had found eight superbly-forged British passports with a genuine Israeli passport and a number of Israeli embassy envelopes. International investigations revealed that the forgeries had been destined for the Israeli embassy in London for use on offensive operations by the Mossad. The Mossad […]

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[…] information war going on in Spain. This was the excuse needed for pressure to be exerted across the Hispanic world to get Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had claimed asylum.11 Klarenberg writes regularly for The Grayzone which is anti-American, antiIsraeli and pro-Russian. The Grayzone’s founder/editor, Max Blumenthal,12 attended the […]

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