Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with Iran, Cameron appointed right-winger Liam Fox as Minister of Defence precisely to pursue exactly the same kind of privatisation agenda pursued by Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon from 2000. (Klein, 2007, pp. 293-305) While Rumsfeld was saved from the Joint Chiefs of Staff by 9/11, it was this privatising zeal that led Liam […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] at the time – the Republicans had stolen the election at the Florida count and protests about that had continued – and was strengthened when the 1962 Pentagon proposals, Operation Northwoods, were noticed.61 The second theme was ‘It must be a state/deep state conspiracy because there was no air defence.’ (I don’t know what […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] that plane.’ It’s been a while since I looked at 9/11 but I thought I remembered quite a lot of photographs of debris inside and outside the Pentagon. So I went to Google Images and asked for ‘9/11, Pentagon, debris’ and yes, there are now hundreds if not thousands of such images. As for […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] at the time – the Republicans had stolen the election at the Florida count and protests about that had continued – and was strengthened when the 1962 Pentagon proposals, Operation Northwoods, were noticed.62 The second theme was ‘It must be a state/deep state conspiracy because there was no air or 61 Northwoods was a […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] to 9/11. I glanced at the other essays listed on the site’s home page. One caught my eye: ‘How we KNOW an airliner did NOT hit the Pentagon’. This is one of the most striking of the ‘truther’ claims. If true it means that the eye-witnesses who say they saw an airliner flying into […]

Chemtrails: the proof and the purpose

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] October, 2001, . 12 See Wikipedia ‘Chemtrail conspiracy theory’, no date. confirmed in 1997 by then US Defense Secretary Bill Cohen, who admitted that he and his Pentagon cronies were ‘intensify our efforts’ to ‘set off volcanoes, tsunamis using electromagnetic waves’,1 3 echoing the work of President Johnson’s science advisor, Gordon MacDonald, in the […]

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

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the 19 June 1972 break-in at the Watergate complex. The previous year, on 13 June 1971, the New York Times had published the first batch of the Pentagon Papers, a splash falling six inside pages deep. They cited documents that showed the fabrication, fiction, and falsehoods being fed to the public about the USA’s […]

DEADLY BETRAYAL: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq by Dennis Fritz

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[PDF file]: […] devised by him and his immediate—and secretive —inner circle: Peter Rodman, Abe Shulsky, William Luti, and Paul Wolfowitz, who was probably the biggest war hawk at the Pentagon. This circle ran a special intelligence unit that undermined the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the CIA, and the State Department’s efforts to find links between Iraq […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is a belter (the emphasis is mine): ‘In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the 9 For example: the claims that no plane hit the Pentagon; that there were no planes at all, they were holograms; that the buildings were destroyed by nukes in the basements; that the buildings were destroyed by […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] and gave up. That material is on a disk somewhere. Truth is, I could never take the US-did-9/11 thesis seriously, because of the targets: Manhattan and the Pentagon. I just could not imagine any US conspirators deciding to attack those locations. Had it been Disneyland, or some provincial city, OK. But not those towers […]

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