The view from the bridge

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[…] was an arms race, the perception of which in the West was manipulated by US intelligence to exaggerate Soviet capacities, which eventually bankrupted both the major players. JFK understood this; and he and Kruschev were trying to wind it down. It would be satisfying to say that JFK was killed to prevent him doing […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Meet the new ‘C’ – same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is a phantom, and it will enslave us.’ Further asides which may whet the appetite of the assiduous Lobster readers are the references to the interventions of JFK in 1963 to prevent the growth of offshore. He had put down legislation to crack down on deferred taxation. ‘The corporate community went ape-shit.’ JFK had […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as a lot of speculation. The author’s analysis of the shooting and its immediate aftermath is hard to follow and it made me realise how difficult the JFK assassination material must be for those coming to it for the first time. Another Met spook outed Mark Metcalf has written an interesting piece on his […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]

View from Bridge 87pdf

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[…] taken in Dallas on or 3 4 See . See, for example, or . 5 2 22 November 1963, a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it here because Robert Morrow6 has reminded his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Keysers. Edward DuCann, Two Lives (Upton on Severn: Images Publishing, 1995) p. 131. 28 This began during JFK’s term in office. It is not widely understood that JFK was more or less a Rooseveltian Democrat who sought – rather like Harold Wilson – to rebuild the US manufacturing economy and rein in the US […]

View from the Bridge 87

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[…] 1 Dallas again This is one of the famous ‘three tramps’ photographs taken in Dallas on 22 November 1963, a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it 4 See . See, for example, or . 5 2 there is one other sentence worth noting. During a visit to the Vatican […]

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