The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the 2016 election, users over 65 shared more fake news than any other age group and seven times more than users between 18 and 29. In 2020, Trump has dedicated almost half of his reelection campaign budget to Facebook ads — many of which include blatant misinformation — to users over 65 years old.’ […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Gems from the over 150 messages in the thread, include: ‘Polls are set to open in 48 hours across the US as the authoritarian regime of Donald Trump attempts to consolidate its hold over the troubled, oil-rich, nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.’ ‘Report from […]

The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lt. General Michael T Flynn and Michael Ledeen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] global jihad that is supposedly being waged against the United States. He has also condemned Putin’s Russia for supporting and encouraging this jihad. On the other hand, Trump himself has repeatedly made clear his admiration for Putin and expressed his willingness to accommodate Russian ambitions in the Middle East, the Ukraine and elsewhere; indeed, […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as their 45th President a man who privately boasted of groping women, admitted getting his mistress (Marla Maples) pregnant while still married to his first wife (Ivana Trump), and bragged of having ‘three other girlfriends’ while ‘living with Marla’.1 Despite this record, many conservative evangelical leaders and other champions of ‘family values’ supported his […]

View from the bridge

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[…] in the knowledge that the US would come hurtling in with its massive resources if Russia crossed a red line. As of January 20th, this all changed. Trump recognised that the US was being manipulated and, worse, possibly into nuclear confrontation and that the Russian economy and will to fight were not breaking under […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] campaign – the one that reduced the government’s majority to a thread. Top of the tree for failing upwards must surely be the current U.S. President, Donald Trump. He’s a serial failure in business8 and his tremendous See ‘The other Analytica’ by Laurens Cerulus for Politico.eu at . 5 One of their strap lines […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Nonetheless I can say this: Gerth shows in enormous detail how the largely Democrat-supporting media in Washington and New York enthusiastically pursued and exaggerated reported links between Trump and Russia, initially in the hope of preventing him winning the 2016 presidential election. In this they were supported by large parts of establishment Washington who […]

View from the bridge

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[…] in the knowledge that the US would come hurtling in with its massive resources if Russia crossed a red line. As of January 20th, this all changed. Trump recognised that the US was being manipulated and, worse, possibly into nuclear confrontation and that the Russian economy and will to fight were not breaking under […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in the knowledge that the US would come hurtling in with its massive resources if Russia crossed a red line. As of January 20th, this all changed. Trump recognised that the US was being manipulated and, worse, possibly into nuclear confrontation and that the Russian economy and will to fight were not breaking under […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Wikileaks got the hacked material from the Russians and passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks story. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was […]

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