The View from the Bridge

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[…] operation involving planted information; deception of the British and authorised personnel; attacks on individuals which do nothing to advance the fight against terrorism.’ 7 * new * Mind control Muckrock is a website devoted to FOIA requests in the USA. It recently had a story headed: ‘Washington State Fusion Centre accidentally releases records on […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at or . 52 One attempted […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at or . 52 One attempted […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to an ad hoc panel to examine the question of how some material still held by the National Archives should be declassified with the FOI Act in mind. Mr Brown had put his finger deftly on the point that had alarmed Mr Blair in 2005, and to which Mr Blair only confessed in his […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that the assault on US constitutional democracy that Trump was carrying out while in office is going to continue regardless. Inevitably comparisons with Weimar Germany come to mind. There are neo-Nazi militias (thankfully few in number at the moment) openly parading in the US; the Republican Party seems wholeheartedly committed to a racist voter […]

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

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) 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 […]

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 […]

Enron accounting… and how to prevent it

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The sinecure is alive and well in boardrooms. Non-executive directors are meant to bring some particular benefit, for example contacts or expertise, and a certain independence of mind to a board. In practice, and especially with large companies, non-execs have a pretty dismal record of bringing neither particular benefit nor independence of mind to […]

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