The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] years since I did so. However there was a very interesting essay on changing styles in British political policing on 19 ‘Empire of Bases 2.0 Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?’ at . 20 21 22 8 Against that background, the then Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard Dannatt, told me […]

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

Misc reviews

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[…] invasion within the US intelligence and foreign services. This DVD puts that opposition’s case. Cutting together interviews with a large cast of former CIA, State Department and Pentagon officials, some very senior, and footage of public statements of Bush, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, the film shows that the Bush administration’s ‘intelligence’ on Iraq […]

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 […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] of the squat, ugly, and unlikeable Panamanian caudillo. The 1988 indictments in Miami and Tampa sealed Noriega’s fate. They silenced most of his remaining allies in the Pentagon and CIA and all but forced Vice President and then President Bush to demand that Noriega leave power. The Latin strongman’s cocky refusal posed an unforgiveable […]

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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]

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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