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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

Reporting Trump

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[PDF file]: […] was elected by 62 million people and ‘no one could say he wasn’t doing what he promised. Renegotiating trade deals, tougher immigration laws, cutting taxes, exiting the Iran nuclear deal and winding back regulations. These are precisely the policies he promised during the campaign’. (p. 32) This, despite everything, seems to be the position […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with […]

Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51: An Uneasy Relationship? by Daniel W B Lomas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] covert operation aimed at Albania is a case in point. Even more remarkable is the fact that when the Labour government decided not to intervene militarily in Iran after the nationalisation of the British- owned oil industry by the nationalist government (because of shortage of troops and US pressure), they instead authorised a covert […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] tax farming which is now beginning as what’s left of the state is divvied-up among James Kirkup, ‘Britain had to plead with US to take part in Iran flotilla’, Daily Telegraph 06 Feb 2012. 22 Alan Travis, ‘Thatcher went behind cabinet’s back with Trident purchase’ The Guardian, 30 December 2011. 23 See Martin Beckford, […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with […]

The CIA and Radio Nord Simon

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[PDF file]: […] set on the Finnish front in the 40s. See the page ‘Tex Sallee and the Reynolds Chinese Expedition’ at or 6 1967. Reynold’s B-26 ended up in Iran in the mid 70s, where it was impounded after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Much of the above is culled from the internet, and the internet […]

Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

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[PDF file]: […] a time when the Trump administration is threatening an attack on North Korea, which would almost certainly involve the use of nuclear weapons, and an attack on Iran as well, the future looks like business as usual. We shall see. Given its subject matter, this is inevitably an interesting history and Hippler does have […]

Murder in Cairo

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[PDF file]: Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the killing […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] worked there before he went into intelligence, as had Kermit Roosevelt’s grandfather. (5) (Kermit Roosevelt, who is perhaps best known for his role in the coup in Iran) went round America’s largest corporations asking, “Are you patriotic?”, raising money for the CIA front companies and securing the use of their trusts and foundations. (6) […]

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