The view from the bridge

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[…] war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke inspection rules at arms factory supplying Saudis in Yemen war’.75 Two things are going on here. The […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] British intelligence service. Of one thing we can be certain: it was Dennis Robertson who moved Polly Peck funds from Britain to Cyprus.’ Postscript: a licence to kill? In 2009, the BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera 3 Elizabeth Forsyth says: ‘I must make one matter clear, I was instrumental in handing documentation which I […]

Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] some country boys doing the shooting’. He claims he was told about the details by Cliff Carter and it is as the buffs always presumed: frame Oswald, kill Oswald while arresting him, use local law enforcement – interestingly the Sheriff’s Department, not the Dallas Police Department – to control things. ‘The plan was to […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] guided by numbing bureaucratic processes that seemed to reduce the mass murder to soporific tedium. It was the war that sent mainly African-Americans and poor whites to kill ‘gooks’ ostensibly to 5 The Geneva Agreements of 1954 ended the First Indochina War. Central provisions were a ceasefire and withdrawal of French troops. French Indochina […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] theory I can remember coming across and may mark the beginning of the current age of conspiracy theories. Like all good conspiracy theories, Gemstone is impossible to kill off and interest in Gemstone continues. Shawn Hamilton, for example, has an essay, ‘A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File turns 40’, in which he discusses […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 30 August, 2018 or . 18 For an example of this, see ‘National Enquirer owner admits to “catch and kill” payment to ex-Playmate’ at or . 19 Infamous, as Press Secretary, for holding zero press conferences. See (e.g.) ‘Press Secretary Who Never Held Briefing Leaving Her […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 30 August, 2018 or . 18 For an example of this, see ‘National Enquirer owner admits to “catch and kill” payment to ex-Playmate’ at or . 19 Infamous, as Press Secretary, for holding zero press conferences. See (e.g.) ‘Press Secretary Who Never Held Briefing Leaving Her […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] politically powerful. I do not believe that the CIA, the military and/or the anti-Castro Cubans did the dirty deed in Dallas but lots of them wanted to kill JFK – and precisely because they saw the Kennedy administration as dragging its feet where Fidel was concerned. Some of this secret diplomacy is discussed in […]

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