The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] it’s Twitter. And here’s another Cobain cracker: ‘A social media network for young people, launched around the term “woke”, is actually a covert British government counterterrorism programme, security officials have admitted.’ 28 The fact that the official inquiry into 9/11 tried to suppress one chapter, on the Saudi links of the hi-jackers, suggests that […]

German links to the Hammarskjöld case

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] On 15 July the first UN troops entered, and Belgian intervention forces left the Congo, except for Katanga, where they stayed to train and build a Katangese security force strong enough to resist the Congolese military. UN troops took up position in Katanga as well but stayed out of the intra-Congolese conflict. This position […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] coup resisters; the lack of implementation of the Minsk Accords to end that conflict; and the outright rejection of treaty proposals by Moscow to create a new security architecture in Europe taking Russia’s security concerns into account. But . . . there was no NATO promise not to expand eastwards. There was talk among […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United States national security interests.”’31 The final steps will be to compel Facebook, Google et al to incorporate a US state-determined list of ‘fake news’ sites into their systems and […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] little talent and had an exaggerated sense of his own significance. The reader’s attention was drawn to his comments that he had been classified as a national security risk by the Special Branch and that the CIA effectively controlled broadcasting in the UK.1 Dee served in the RAF from 1953 to 1958, spending much […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] morsels.15 The recording of General Kelly firing her was so clear I think it highly possible that the phone was placed in plain sight (a breach of security for the Situation Room, where electronic devices from outside are banned) and that General Kelly might even have been aware that the recording was taking place. […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was ‘corrupt as hell’. (p. 170). The country was a fully-fledged kleptocracy. Between 2001 and 2020, the U.S. allocated $143 billion ‘for reconstruction, aid programs and Afghan security forces’. Adjusted for inflation, this exceeds the funds allocated to the post WW2 Marshall Plan for the whole of Western Europe. (p. 30) Much of this […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] After the 2010 general election Cabinet Secretary O’Donnell contacted the Liberal Democrats and ushered them into meetings with the Bank of England and the head of the Security Service on Friday 6 May 2010. He and his officials also briefed both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaderships on the latest economic figures – a […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] it’s Twitter. And here’s another Cobain cracker: ‘A social media network for young people, launched around the term “woke”, is actually a covert British government counterterrorism programme, security officials have admitted.’ 28 The fact that the official inquiry into 9/11 tried to suppress one chapter, on the Saudi links of the hi-jackers, suggests that […]

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