The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 2017, when the Trump administration radically reduced the State Department’s presence on the Caribbean island and the CIA withdrew all of its personnel from the reopened U.S. Embassy there. But few in the intelligence community believed the Cubans were behind the phenomenon. Given Moscow’s outsize influence on the Communist-run nation, the prevailing theory was […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] by Henry Ford to become the Ford Motor Company’s representative in Europe. He later worked for Lufthansa and in the mid-30s was an attaché at the German Embassy in London. In 1938 he married Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, the second daughter of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, making him a cousin […]

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[…] invaluable commentator on the machinations of the state. On 28 May he wrote a very important piece, ‘The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists’.60 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

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[…] invaluable commentator on the machinations of the state. On 28 May he wrote a very important piece, ‘The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists’.41 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] day’s proceedings. See or . 5 Maule Ramsay was interned on 23 May after evidence emerged of him having a close relationship with Tyler Kent, a US embassy employee who was obtaining confidential US and UK communications. After Ramsay’s arrest, Lord Marley obliquely referred to him in the House of Lords as the Nazi […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Ms. Ratner, she made a stop in London during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Mr. Assange for approximately six hours in the Ecuadorean embassy. Ms. Ratner said Mr. Assange told her that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Ms. Ratner said […]

WEAPONISING ANTI-SEMITISM: How The Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Looked at another way, the author has written an unprecedented exposé of a successful political operation in Britain. For an operation it was, directed by the Israeli embassy in London. The British political system and its attendant media have allowed the Israeli state to restructure one of its two main political parties. On the […]

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] she employs is to make a joke of it. When Tony Blair visited the country in May 2007, she was invited to meet him at the British Embassy. The Embassy was ‘rocketed….minutes before Blair arrived – he was running ten minutes late. Two vehicles were destroyed’. She was introduced to him by US General […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Not even true lies O ne of the Wiki releases from the US State Department is a 2006 briefing paper (06MANAGUA1002, NICARAGUA’S MOST WANTED) from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, which details the life and high crimes of Daniel Ortega. How much of this is true? Given the level of disinformation produced against […]

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