View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

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 […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

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 […]

Hollow Hegemony

Lobster Issue

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. Changing times . . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book about US […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. Changing times . . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book about US […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. Changing times . . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book about US […]

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