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[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]

Ukrainian psyops

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[…] Mr Wallace’s feigned compassion for Russian families with members in military service was clearly intended to spread fear, uncertainty, and distrust through Russia’s armed services. Mr Wallace’s mind games probably succeeded to some degree, since cynicism about being treated as disposable ‘cannon fodder’ is always endemic in the lower orders of any army. What […]

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[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] UK economy and bringing asset price volatility under control, while nurturing non-financial exporting sectors.’37 Yes, indeed. And good luck selling that to the British political system (never mind the electorate). It is precisely the difficulty of persuading those within the daily travel distance to London that their influence and share of the national cake […]

GArrick Timmi text

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[…] past during his formal education. Living alongside this flourishing pro-Soviet propaganda installation, and occasionally venturing inside it, can only have exercised a strong influence on Olaf’s developing mind. One might describe it as immersive indoctrination, and it left an indelible impression. Many years later, Neitsch would take up residence in another town with similarly […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be ‘contained’. The Pentagon and its sales wing in the arms corporations (or is it the arms corporations and their political wing, the Pentagon?) are happy. Never mind that we are not too far from a shooting war in the Baltic…. The illustration above – not very clear, reduced for reproduction: check the original3 […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ISBN-10 : 1733658009 (p/back) Garrick Alder Plots? Plural? Think of Franklin D. Roosevelt and plots, and the so-called Business Plot1 is the only one that comes to mind. Therefore, any book that promises a plethora of plots is parapolitical catnip; and Denton’s is that book – or at least the only one staking that […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] pacifists/nutters – delete according to taste – many of whom are ‘domestic extremists’ by the criteria used by the Metropolitan Police in recent years. With this in mind is the new gay-friendly MI5 going to reconstitute F branch (the watchers of subversives), which it apparently disbanded to concentrate on jihadis? The innocents Because it […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] pacifists/nutters – delete according to taste – many of whom are ‘domestic extremists’ by the criteria used by the Metropolitan Police in recent years. With this in mind is the new gay-friendly MI521 going to reconstitute F branch (the watchers of subversives), which it apparently disbanded to concentrate on jihadis? The innocents B ecause […]

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