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. *new* The Economic League In Lobster 28 I reviewed Mike Hughes’ Spies at Work, in which he pulled together the fragments […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] who would have thought that James Watson, who ‘had earlier won fame for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA’, once served ‘on a secret Pentagon CBW advisory panel’. Hersh’s discussion of My Lai – he rightly calls it a ‘National Disgrace’ – is essential reading, although it was merely the tip […]

War on Terror Inc

Lobster Issue

[…] private is better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of […]

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. *new* The Economic League In Lobster 28 I reviewed Mike Hughes’ Spies at Work, in which he pulled together the fragments […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with those who embrace identity politics, whether they are on Wall Street or in the Pentagon. They are the useful idiots of the billionaire class, moral crusaders who widen the divisions within society that the ruling oligarchs foster to maintain control.13 Thus […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. *new* The Economic League In Lobster 28 I reviewed Mike Hughes’ Spies at Work, in which he pulled together the fragments […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] The assassination conspiracy was leaky. And this suggests very strongly that we are dealing with something other than a professional job by the intelligence services or the Pentagon. It is hard to imagine the pros holding anything more closely than the assassination of a president.’ In the beginning I now can’t remember how I […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

Lobster Issue

[…] which mainstream media outlets in the West did not discuss in much detail. This was the country’s place in US global strategy. As early as 1992 a Pentagon defence planning document explicitly stated that the main objective of US security policy should be ‘to obstruct the emergence of any potential rival – “either on […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Goodhart said that, ‘I did once hear that the services regard the Shiv Malik piece on 7/7 as essential reading inside the “security state”’ and added: ‘a Pentagon official once said the same.’ Goodhart went on to say: ‘if Hassan Butt has now been “exposed” as a liar and fantasist we were certainly not […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Hugh Gaitskell, was in the Scottish capital from 1968 until his retirement from the foreign service in 1971. 2 His younger son, Dean Godson, a former US Pentagon official and now a Tory peer, is director of the ‘think-tank’ Policy Exchange. 3 Discussed in Tom Easton, ‘Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent’ in Lobster 47. 3 […]

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