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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 […]

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 81 (Summer 2021)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] during the Second World War, and (US Army General) Eisenhower’s special advisor on psychological warfare. Between 1953 and 1954, Jackson was President Eisenhower’s special liaison between the Pentagon and the recently-created CIA. On one fundamental principle, Jackson and Eisenhower were likeminded: psychological warfare was preferable to physical warfare, and decisively so in the age […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] ‘We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the or 11 12 or 13 14 15 16 17 18 3 attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq. swung American public opinion in our favor’. The Timeline tells us more about Netanyahu’s property magnate friend Larry Silverstein acquiring […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] themselves in the swamp like no other President before them. Jared Kushner, for example, has both ‘personal and financial entanglements’ across the Middle East. According to one Pentagon aide, every policy in the region was ‘examined for what it can do for him’. And as for Trump himself, he is ‘at once a symptom […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the Dog, a ‘threat’ from Albania is created. In the satire-proof America of 2013 the threat is North Korea. The Washington Post reported on 15 March: ‘The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country’s defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast […]

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