The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] . 4 5 6 Chauncey Holt, Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel (Waterville, OR: TrineDay, 2013) p. 158 2 ‘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 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As 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 and […]

Hollow Hegemony

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Contents Lobster 58 Hollow Hegemony Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] and its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. Politicians and economics Few politicians bother to learn elementary economics and the monetarist idea of the mid 1970s – control the […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] army by almost three to one.’4 0 This was because Aegis, with strong input from Spicer, had won a contract in Iraq worth $293 million from the Pentagon, ‘… to co-ordinate security for reconstruction projects, as well as support for other private military companies, in Iraq.’4 1 By pure coincidence, at the time that […]

View from the bridge

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[…] its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . in vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] its military installations and equipment in particular, are being regularly visited by vehicles from . . . somewhere else . . . in vehicles whose performance the Pentagon can’t understand, let alone replicate. The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] engages, America is always right, well intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. ‘Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy?’ If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the alleged lead hijacker.4 That man, Mohammed Atta, was reportedly living in the home state of Graham and Goss while preparing to attack the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and whatever was the intended target of the fourth hijacked plane that day.5 Graham, a veteran legislator with a long interest in intelligence matters, was soon […]

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