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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to Mr Adams’ readers, notwithstanding his admirable research to document his story from official records.2 This review examines Milteer might not have had a specific motorcade in mind at this stage. President Kennedy visited Miami fairly often, for personal reasons: the Kennedy family had a compound overlooking Palm Beach. 1 For example, the book’s […]

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

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[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

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[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 view from the bridge

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[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

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[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

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[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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