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[…] populist backlash termed “the revolt of the public” by former CIA analyst Martin Gurri for an act of war. And it received the full backing of the Pentagon, the intelligence community, and President Biden, all of whom, notes Glenn Greenwald, have declared that “the gravest menace to American national security” is not Russia, ISIS, […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were ‘a two-man obstacle to just about everything President Trump wanted to get done. They were perfect representations of the establishment rot that had taken over the Pentagon’. They were ‘rogue actors who tried to destroy the Trump agenda’, mounting ‘many covert attempts’ and launching ‘a negative PR campaign against President Trump’. And General […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock A s I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell’ in Lobster 77.1 As a US presidential candidate in 1976, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. attended a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the aim of which was to seek official disclosure of the truth about the 1947 ‘Roswell Incident’. The other participants in the meeting […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

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[…] at . 4 5 6 Chauncey Holt, Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel (Waterville, OR: TrineDay, 2013) p. 158 ‘In November 1997 the JFK Assassination Records Review Board released Pentagon documents which, according to the Reuters’ report on this, show that “The Pentagon drew up plans to mount a bloody ‘terror campaign’ in the United States […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Alliance and Daszak declined to comment for this story.’51 This article did not refer to the report that EcoHealth Alliance had received nearly $40 million from the Pentagon which it had tried to ‘bury’ in its accounts.52 Charles Schmidt, ‘Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved’ at . 51 or […]

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