The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] UK economy and bringing asset price volatility under control, while nurturing non-financial exporting sectors.’38 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 […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Ukrainian psyops

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

GArrick Timmi text

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] in Foreign Secretary William Hague’s speech to the House of Commons. He didn’t actually deny the central allegations: he said they were ‘baseless’, which, to the legal mind – and 3 influencing the democratic development of these countries.’ clever lawyers will have been over his text – is not the same thing as ‘false’. […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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

[…] Brexit. Consequently I do not believe it will happen.2 As the ‘negotiations’ proceed, a negative feedback 1 or . 2 I voted ‘leave’ in the referendum. Never mind the destruction of Greece by the EU, described in detail in the new book by Yanis Varoufakis; a union based on the free movement of capital […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Korean war. The significance of this recurring motif isn’t immediately apparent. Related to this show-trial theme, in chronicling the creation of MKULTRA (‘The Manhattan Project of the mind’, in Dulles’s words), Mr Talbot shows that one of Dulles’s genuine fears about his adversaries was well-founded, or at least comprehensible. The downed airmen who confessed […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

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