The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to digest and I’ve skimmed only parts of it. Here are the first few essays as listed at the beginning of the magazine. ‘Jeffrey Epstein, CIA’s MK-Ultra, Drugs, Mick Jagger, & Courtney Love’ by John Potash ‘Guccifer 2.0, Seth Rich, & WikiLeaks: Finding the Ghost in the Shell’ by Elizabeth Lea Vos COVER STORY: […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] carefully-planned role in LSD’s discovery and penetration of western culture. It is suggested these agencies introduced LSD into certain demographics for reasons ranging from observing how psychedelic drugs affect individuals to the intentional creation of the hippie counter culture with the aim of undermining and disrupting organised political opposition and radical social change.’ But […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] deaths are linked to corruption within Sussex Police Force, a local businessman who is alleged to be a criminal mastermind with his fingers in child pornography and drugs rings, bribery and cover-ups on the local council, mysterious gunmen uttering threats against witnesses and all sorts of other stuff. Amid all the confusion, there is […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] its client army under the warlord Chiang-Kai-Shek. All of a sudden, the US had ‘lost China’. The so-called China Lobby – a coalition of banking, contraband (e.g. drugs) and feudal military interests, exemplified by former colonial governor of the Philippines, Douglas MacArthur – began a far-reaching campaign to mobilise the US as a whole […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] to digest and I’ve skimmed only parts of it. Here are the first few essays as listed at the beginning of the magazine. ‘Jeffrey Epstein, CIA’s MK-Ultra, Drugs, Mick Jagger, & Courtney Love’ by John Potash ‘Guccifer 2.0, Seth Rich, & WikiLeaks: Finding the Ghost in the Shell’ by Elizabeth Lea Vos COVER STORY: […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

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[PDF file]: […] against communities like mine that that sparked my political interest and awakening. Today, in those very same communities, working-class lives are ending unnecessarily because of a failed drugs policy. Think of all the families who have lost a child or partner, lying in a manky alleyway with a needle in their arm or a […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at the end of the 1930s, can cause a sort of birth trauma: a foetus, struggling inside the womb, […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been trained to do. If we shift our attention for a moment to the economic basis of this region, it has been said that the war against drugs is also being fought there. However, this is counterfactual. Since the 1840s the region from Afghanistan to Indochina has been part of what was originally the […]

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