The view from the bridge

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[…] rice and wheat crops. The Iraqis looked at this in the 1980s for possible use against 14 The Net attributes this to the American novelist David Foster Wallace but it’s much older than that. I just can’t remember who said it first. 15 16 See below under subhead Ah yes: the USA as moral […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz to review it and he devoted almost all of his three page review to the Stone-Kuznik account of why vice president Henry Wallace was dumped by Roosevelt during WW2 – obviously the most important part of the series, right? For what it’s worth, I think Wilentz makes a pretty […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] being reviewed by someone else. But I can’t resist commenting on a couple of pages on Northern Ireland about which I have some knowledge. First there’s Colin Wallace, ‘an information officer based at the British army headquarters in Lisburn, Northern Ireland He had apparently adopted a rather too cavalier approach to his job’. (pp. […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that the police file […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] copies of the dossier as potential ammunition in their ongoing private war with Hoover? Rather less gentlemanly was the double-cross they pulled off against racist Dixiecrat George Wallace, who had endorsed JFK’s candidacy for Vice-President in 1956, and had donated heavily to his presidential campaign in 1960, only to end up with desegregation forced […]

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[…] it was waged against an administration that represented a significantly smaller threat to the existing order than that offered by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour.’ 78 As usual, Colin Wallace, by far the most significant source on all this, was not mentioned. In the midst of a long essay on the innocence of middle-class white Americans […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] very good indeed. An example of Google suppressing information it didn’t like is given at . 76 See for example or 77 23 78 As usual, Colin Wallace, by far the most significant source on all this, was not mentioned. In the midst of a long essay on the innocence of middle-class white Americans […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] infecting rice and wheat crops. The Iraqis looked at this in the 1980s for possible use 14 The Net attributes this to the American novelist David Foster Wallace but it’s much older than that. I just can’t remember who said it first. 15 16 See below under subhead Ah yes: the USA as moral […]

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