The Scottish National Party and the American State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] while MSP Ross Thomson declared the trip in his House of Commons register (he became an MP in 2017). All three attributed the gratuity to the US Embassy without reference to the IVLP. Grady and Crawley are members of the British American Parliamentary Group (BAPG). Are we to understand that the BAPG are exempt […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] relations at the time was facilitated by MI5. For not only did they have the Party bugged and penetrated, they knew about the money from the Soviet embassy which was keeping it going.22 I have suggested before in these columns that had MI5 exposed the Soviet funding after the Red Army rolled its tanks […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] was suddenly transformed from the theoretical to the pragmatic. Johnson: ‘Or some of our folks, including some of the old China Lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying, “Please notify the President that if he’ll hold out till November the 2nd they could get a better deal. And they oughtn’t to be […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] library. . 19 The excellent Richard Murphy made some similar comments. See or . 20 7 21 Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] including the Daily Mail, The Times and The Spectator. See . 27 ‘I can’t in all conscience vote for any of them’, 1 November 2019. or 28 embassy in London and its assets.29 Why has the MSM failed so completely at this? Maybe one day some of those involved at editorial level will explain […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] US diplomatic personnel being assaulted by some kind of Russian beam weapon – presumably, but not definitively, microwave based. (The first such reports came from the US embassy in Havana.) The first item was a story which came out of the US attack on Venezuela. A member of the Venezuelan armed forces is reported […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] to the American Civil Liberties Union and Socialist Workers Party. Marlowe also travelled to Mexico on behalf of the FPCC in 1962, visited the Mexico City Cuban embassy to try and get a visa to travel to Cuba and met with Mexican communists while there.29 This political CV is strikingly similar to Oswald’s. The […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] library. . 19 The excellent Richard Murphy made some similar comments. See or . 20 7 21 Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

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