The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

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 […]

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 […]

Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] these high-level cover-ups was nothing less than the CIA’s basic strategy for the containment of Communism in East and South-East Asia, which (as documents published with the Pentagon Papers have confirmed) relied heavily on the opium growing KMT troops of the Burma-LaosThailand border areas and their contacts with the pro-KMT secret societies in the […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in the world. It appears that no-one actually knows, in part because no-one can agree on the definition of ‘a base’. ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at The most important research currently available on NATO and all its doings is that by Rick Rozoff at and many […]

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 […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] but there is something else here. The US State Department counts for little. It was by-passed in the 1950s by the paramilitary (CIA) and the military ( Pentagon). The US State Department exists as a kind of cover story for America’s military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by the cables which show […]

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