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 Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[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 […]

Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Conservative MP for Aberdeenshire West, joining the pretty extremist Monday Club and Anglo-Rhodesian Society. He also became an ‘icon’ for the Conservative Right, who of course didn’t mind any of this. There were ‘rumours’ – only – that he ‘was engaged as a trouble-shooter for the Thatcher government’ in the early 1980s. Most damaging […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and thousands of troops recruited by the ‘West’ to support the Tsarist armies and fascist Siberian Republic. It is essential to bear these over-arching contextual points in mind when considering the value of classified US documents and their disclosure, whether by Wikileaks or Bob Woodward. It is essential to bear these points in mind […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] cack-handed notions of Elon Musk, Steve Bannon and others, and look to elected, accountable, governments to secure a better future. Simon Matthews’ new book – Free Your Mind! Giovanni “Tinto” Brass, “Swinging London” and the 60s Pop Culture Scene – will be published by Oldcastle Books in April. See . As with Thiel and […]

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