The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] project that has distorted the corporation’s journalism on Brexit, Trump and, eventually, Gaza . . . . . . Gibb has been arguably the most influential yet hidden helping hand to Brexit politics, the Conservative Party and Israel, while bestriding two of the nation’s most important institutions as, variously, I went to the University […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Calling the Israel lobby’s activities an open conspiracy is meant to convey a sense that there is a conspiracy – but part of it is visible, not hidden. Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy […]

Last post for Oswald

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] served with a subpoena. This proves to be the key to understanding a substantial part of this episode. The FBI’s mail interception program had to be kept hidden (in fact it did not come to light until the 1970s); and doing so meant that the fact that the mis-addressed Nixie parcel had almost been […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Stasi brutality, attempting to discredit the tour guides by deliberately starting arguments with them in front of their impressionable charges.30 At far higher levels, this network of hidden persuaders has even jury-rigged investigations undertaken by the United Nations, in order to engineer findings that favour ex-Stasi men.31 After 1983, KD Treptow was relocated from […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] Lebzelter, ‘Henry Hamilton Beamish and the Britons; Champions of Anti-Semitism’ in Lunn and Thurlow (eds) see note 4 above: first (unnumbered) page of her essay. 84 The hidden anti-semitism of the political Right in this period is visible, for example, in the autobiography of John Baker White (see note 69 above). White (p. 123) […]

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

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] One is certainly that the City of London was one of the beneficiaries of Afghan corruption, with billions of dollars being smuggled out of the country and hidden away in New York, London and the Gulf states. It is unlikely that we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar’s airplanes and obtained film of Escobar and Ministry of the Interior officials loading cocaine onto one of Escobar’s planes at Managua’s […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] a 3-man team and probably stolen in a raid on the Irish Reserve Army barracks at Midleton, Co Cork in 1970. This deadly water-cooled weapon was partly hidden under an old sack. Stanley moved the sack, laid out his handkerchief and expertly stripped the weapon into its parts. It looked as though he could […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the US was orchestrating his 2002 ouster due to the risk he posed of derailing the Iraq war agenda with successful negotiations, his office was packed with hidden surveillance equipment and that his American head of security vanished immediately after this was discovered. “The fact was that the wall behind my desk, the wall […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia — with ‘collateral damage’ in the US itself. Much more needs to be said about this war since it remains largely hidden in the swamp of deniability. Finally there was the fourth Vietnam War: the unrelenting hostility combined with all the available systemic weapons deployed since 1975 in […]

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