The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to the beginnings of modern David Leigh’s 1978 Guardian account of the demise of IRD is archived at . 5 History also tells us that when the Reagan administration revived the Cold War and began another arms race, the attempt to compete militarily with the US damaged the already inefficient Soviet economy and hastened […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] World War and the Russian David Leigh’s 1978 Guardian account of the demise of IRD is archived at . 5 History also tells us that when the Reagan administration revived the Cold War and began another arms race, the attempt to compete militarily with the US damaged the already inefficient Soviet economy and hastened […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] foreign policy interests of both. Mossad 91 Summer 2010 founding father Kimche was a key figure in setting up the 1985 US arms-for-Iran deal when President Ronald Reagan was needing to find a way to finance the Contra rebels in Nicaragua after the US Senate ruled such funding illegal. Israel supplied the weapons and […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] about reducing the size of government is redolent of Ronald Reagan’s remark that government doesn’t solve the problem but is the problem. But in the era of Reagan and Thatcher’s attempts to reduce the size of government, the employment of consultancies rocketed: At the time of the 1979 general election in the United Kingdom, […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] about reducing the size of government is redolent of Ronald Reagan’s remark that government doesn’t solve the problem but is the problem. But in the era of Reagan and Thatcher’s attempts to reduce the size of government, the employment of consultancies rocketed: At the time of the 1979 general election in the United Kingdom, […]

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[…] of the MJ-12 papers begins on page 17 of the PDF file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Profiting from War Keenie Meenie The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes Phil Miller London: Pluto Press, 2020, £12.99 (p/b) John Newsinger Phil Miller has written a tremendous book, based on a huge amount of research, that really is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the politics of the world that […]

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[…] MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the collection of Ronald Reagan’s presidential papers. Doty says that Reagan asked to be briefed on the UFO thing as soon as he became president. 6 See, for example, Brain Bender, ‘The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs’ […]

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