The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] historical examples of false flag events providing a casus belli. But here’s the thing: the previous examples were all small beer. Attacking the twin towers and the Pentagon was a huge event. Let’s say that an inter-service alliance within the US military-intelligence complex – and that’s what would be required – decided that they […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] President Nixon’s directive in the summer of 1971 to uncover and silence unauthorized leakers of administration secrets. Topping their list of targets was Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon official who had helped draft the top-secret Pentagon Papers, a highly critical study of the history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg had leaked the 7,000page report […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] they are inserted7 7 but will increase anti-American feeling and thus – and this is the only point of them – will generate new ‘enemies’ for the Pentagon to fight; with expensive ordnance 7 8 provided by the arms manufacturers; a small fraction of whose profits will be used to bribe Congress. This is […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] state: he was infamous for his secrecy, for his back-room manipulation of politicians and government agencies, and for making billions of dollars from his work for the Pentagon and intelligence community as their budgets soared through the Cold War and Vietnam era. Nixon was his kind of politician: willing to trade favors for power, […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Republicans stealing the election for George W. Bush. (Remember the hanging chads in Florida?) There were also pilots who could not believe the plane that hit the Pentagon could have been flown so fast and so low. However the majority thought the Twin Towers were obviously demolished by explosive charges. Among the early advocates […]

Chemtrails

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: Chemtrails T. J. COLES CHEMTRAILS, HAARP, and the “Full Spectrum Dominance” of Planet Earth Elana Freeland Feral House: Port Townsend, WA, 2014, $21.95 ISBN: 978-1-936239-93-1 T here’s not enough information about weather warfare. Most books on the subject are either obscure academic histories or off-the-wall conspiracy theories. For example: the late Jerry E. Smith’s Weather […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] that many senior U.S. officials privately viewed the war as an unmitigated disaster, contradicting a chorus of rosy public statements from officials at the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department, who assured Americans year after year that they were making progress in Afghanistan.’ The various war plans ‘had fatal flaws’ and the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 So: the man whose organisation is funded by the US military and who has been working with […]

Hollow Hegemony

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 Robin Ramsay I shouldn’t be reviewing this book: I am not qualified to do so. What do I know about international relations theory, which is what this book is about? And, in any case, its subject matter is really outside Lobster’s field. […]

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