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 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] events themselves. Within days of 9/11 a number of people received letters containing anthrax spores, the attendant publicity greatly swelling the panic following the World Trade Centre/ Pentagon attacks.1 Among them were ABC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and two Democratic senators critical to rapid Congressional approval of a Patriot Bill conferring wideranging new […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] respond to the threat of hijacked aircraft targeting prominent US buildings,58 but that these air defences proved totally inadequate on September 11. We also know that senior Pentagon staff did not tell the full story about that to Congress or the 9/11 Commission. In several cases those whose testimony was misleading were subsequently promoted. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] of the William Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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