The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] me. 2 Inflation was 8% in 1982 and 8% in 1990. See . 3 Look at the graph at . 4 1 despite her best efforts to kill it, had a manufacturing base three times as big as it is now. The new government has little oil revenue; a much diminished manufacturing base; and […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] acknowledged. David Kelly’s death I have never been greatly interested in this for two reasons. First, I cannot see why anyone or any group would bother to kill Kelly. Cui bono? Norman Baker MP, I understand – I haven’t read his book – concludes (his best guess) that he was ‘suicided’ by a pro-Saddam […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] railroads’. The authors speculate that a ‘clean’ nuclear weapon might have been ‘an airburst of a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon, so as to minimize fallout effects but kill soldiers, truck drivers, and other logistics personnel in the area through immediate radiation effects.’ (p. 233) Fortunately, Nixon did not initiate a nuclear war, but he […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] product of secret payoffs by Hughes to protect his business empire, and a frantic effort by Nixon to head off potential exposure of their relationship lest it kill his chances for reelection. O’Brien was a key target of the White House because he had business and political relationships of his own with top Hughes […]

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