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 […]

Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was published by AP on 4 May 2022. The AP video itself is examined as part of this essay, in Appendix One. Before proceeding, let us re mind ourselves of the supposed survivors of the attack, as seen in the hoax video. Figure 1 1 Figure 1 above shows three sequential frames from the […]

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

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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 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 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 […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] historically as well in philosophically, this is a bracing warm-up class for the overdue heavy lifting this country’s politics badly needs. Like The Return of the Public Mind, the latest book from Chris Hedges is well footnoted and indexed. Hedges has covered wars around the world, is a columnist for Truthdig.com and a widely […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] 1974), pp. 76-77 41 Lukas (see note 9) p. 37; Weissman (see note 41) pp. 78-81 12 42 Argentina, Lebanon and Chile. It must be kept in mind that OSS and CIA has been using the connections of the international heroin traffic for covert operations virtually without interruption since “Operation Underworld” in 1943. At […]

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