View from the Bridge 89

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[…] some meat here, too. . . . the United Kingdom must seek a new geopolitical partnership with the EU. The centerpiece of this relationship should be a security pact that drives closer coordination across a wide variety of military, economic, climate, health, cyber, and energy security issues—and that complements both parties’ unshakable commitment to […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Winter 2010 always need money for ‘vigilance’. 4 Then add in the fact that Reid is a consultant to G4S (formerly Group 4 Securicor), the world’s largest security company with a big interest in ‘homeland security’, airport handling and in Israel. (Lord Reid, as well as being a leading advocate of the Iraq invasion […]

Ukrainian psyops

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[…] The mobile crematorium had first trundled into public awareness in 2015, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea. On 1 May that year Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, head of Ukraine’s interior security service (SBU), announced that Russia had brought seven mobile crematoriums into Crimea to conceal troop losses and destroy evidence of Russian war crimes. Furthermore, they were […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] some meat here, too. . . . the United Kingdom must seek a new geopolitical partnership with the EU. The centerpiece of this relationship should be a security pact that drives closer coordination across a wide variety of military, economic, climate, health, cyber, and energy security issues—and that complements both parties’ unshakable commitment to […]

Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which also established that the meeting at the Pentagon took place in 1976. Inman was promoted to Admiral in 1977, and served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Jimmy Carter. He was appointed CIA Deputy Director by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Now 87 years old and leading a very active […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] co-opted by the prime minister’s chief press officer (Alastair Campbell) during the assault on Iraq? Of course a lot has not changed since 1989. The intelligence and security services remain entirely unaccountable. Then there seemed some slight chance that, via the Labour Party, something might be done about that. I even got a resolution […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] round State Research and the Leveller, and individuals like Duncan Campbell and Tony Bunyan, had worked out for themselves that Mrs Thatcher was the candidate of the security state. That members of the armed forces took her election as their cue to begin operations against the left and peace movement merely confirms another belief […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] UKIP head office. Mr Challice wrote: ‘I can assure you that for years we have been aware of the story concerning UKIP having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would be surprising if SIS (or whoever) had not […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] 1981, the powers-that-be thought it sufficiently dangerous to make it the only thing that was removed from a 1981 Panorama documentary, the first about British intelligence and security agencies. Now we know why. The list makes it clear that the people on the left who thought they were being surveilled and bugged in the […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] ‘Pronunciamento’, designed to achieve a rapid seizure of power in the name of the ‘National Will’, in senior ranks of the armed forces and sections of the security and intelligence services, on the Right of the Conservative Party, in business and financial circles and among sections of the media. The object seems to have […]

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