The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: reformatted late 2023 The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with pictures […]

Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] simultaneously trying to appease the anti-Castro Cubans and the US military/intelligence who wanted action; wanted to manage the ‘Cuba problem’ politically with the 1964 presidential election in mind; and cool the Cold War with the Soviets. There is more that could be said and other emphases that could be made. (No doubt some of […]

View from Bridge 89

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Unbecoming American Dr T. P. Wilkinson wrote a dozen or so striking essays for Lobster. Some of them are included in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 […]

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this book who is not altogether captivated by Johnson is the transparency of his effort to associate himself with the Churchill myth, to plant in his reader’s mind the notion that he has the Churchill Factor. Let us look at his discussion of Conservative MPs attitudes towards Churchill in May 1940. They regarded him […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[…] threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in 1960. What happened? The authors write: ‘…..against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U2 flight […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the great self-promoting, warrior chieftain and third generation mass murderer in the commission of the United States, Douglas MacArthur, are summarised for context.5 This serves to re mind the reader of the difference between the war story for public consumption and the war stories that are suppressed because they neither flatter the mass murdering […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a world war and rationing, he parties hard. Keeping up with his endless social activities (he is always dining, noon and night, and continually drinking) brings to mind the observation of how difficult it would be for any reader to try and emulate the alcohol intake of James Bond, and remain sober.2 In the […]

Chemtrails: the proof and the purpose

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of binary weapons. It would appear that in addition to ‘owning the weather’, covert, global, binary warfare began a long time ago with chemtrail spraying. Keeping in mind that many anti-chemtrail activists have taken water samples after heavy spraying and claim to have found high concentrations of polymer,3 8 Davison wrote that in 1999, […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: Meis Mitzvah in Shrewsbury Five months after Olivia Jane Frank, a former Mossad spy,1 died in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, the Jewish Chronicle revealed her story to readers of the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. They gave her a double deck headline. Trans Mossad spy who helped track down the Munich terrorists […]

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