The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that the police file […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] copies of the dossier as potential ammunition in their ongoing private war with Hoover? Rather less gentlemanly was the double-cross they pulled off against racist Dixiecrat George Wallace, who had endorsed JFK’s candidacy for Vice-President in 1956, and had donated heavily to his presidential campaign in 1960, only to end up with desegregation forced […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] it was waged against an administration that represented a significantly smaller threat to the existing order than that offered by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour.’ 78 As usual, Colin Wallace, by far the most significant source on all this, was not mentioned. In the midst of a long essay on the innocence of middle-class white Americans […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] very good indeed. An example of Google suppressing information it didn’t like is given at . 76 See for example or 77 23 78 As usual, Colin Wallace, by far the most significant source on all this, was not mentioned. In the midst of a long essay on the innocence of middle-class white Americans […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] infecting rice and wheat crops. The Iraqis looked at this in the 1980s for possible use 14 The Net attributes this to the American novelist David Foster Wallace but it’s much older than that. I just can’t remember who said it first. 15 16 See below under subhead Ah yes: the USA as moral […]

Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland by Anne Cadwallader

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] There are many others. This account differs from previous versions. First, it largely eschews the preceding literature on the subject and the three state whistle-blowers, Holroyd, Colin Wallace and John Weir, and uses as evidence official documents: some in the UK national archives, the Barron Report into the bombings in the Irish Republic,1 and, […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the world. Both Boris Johnson and Labour leader, Keir Starmer, have inevitably declared that Britain can be ‘proud’ of its role in Afghanistan; while Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, a one-time admirer of Donald Trump, has blamed the fiasco entirely on the Americans and their decision to pull-out of the country. Wallace has even declared […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that the police file […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1987, the government didn’t try to ban the book. But its claims that Sessargo was a ‘Walter Mitty’ smacked of previous campaigns to discredit whistleblowers from Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd through to David Shayler. Also, if Sessargo were simply a fantasist, why (as Barry Wigmore of the Daily Mail claimed) was he ‘more […]

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