The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 2 *new* Elite management groups An occasional contributor to these columns, Will Banyan is probably the leading writer on the elite management groups, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg et al.4 He has a very good new essay on Bilderberg and the origins of the Trilateral Commission, for those interested in these groups’ history.5 *new* […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] In chapters 1 and 2, for example, we are told that the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Brookings Institution, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Aspen Institute, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and so on are all part of the ‘liberal’ Establishment. But Raso fails to explain why they are ‘liberal’ […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] of drones. Elite management groups An occasional contributor to these columns, Will Banyan is probably the leading writer on the elite management groups, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg et al.8 He has a very good new essay on Bilderberg and the origins or 5 See Oscar Williams, ‘”They will be back”: why attacks like […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Colin Wallace described years before as a double bubble operation: you lead people down a false trail and then pop what you had persuaded them to believe. Bilderberg The essential Carole Cadwalladr had a recent piece pointing out that Peter Thiel, a leading member of what she has christened the broligarchy, has been funding […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] give up all this nonsense about economic independence (let alone socialism).6 1 John Smith, another ‘moderniser’ in the Labour leadership, was on the steering committee of the Bilderberg group, one of the key elite forums promoting globalisation, from 1989 to 1992.6 2 In June 1991 Smith took his then understudy, Gordon Brown, to the […]

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

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] and women, both groups being ‘notoriously tough for libertarians’. Instead, he avoids conventional politics, creating his ideal society via cyberspace. Thiel, a German-American and member of the Bilderberg Group Steering Committee, was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011.8 Collectively, the billionaires and their assorted fellow-travellers justify their ‘mind-set’ via an intellectual – some might […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: *reformatted early 2026* Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites Robin Ramsay In footnote 6 in his essay on the Bilderberg group in Lobster 32, Mike Peters noted that the US Left had lost interest in the study of the power elite because the subject had become ‘contaminated’ by the interest in it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.’ It’s a famous quotation, recycled endlessly on-line, something he reportedly said at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting.3 But did he actually say it? At 4 there is what purports to be the audiotape of Rockefeller saying this in 1991. Yet on the […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] history.) FARI was also reported to be receiving money from the US company Lockheed.37 Chair of FARI in 1978 was Sir Frederick Bennet MP, member of the Bilderberg group and host in 1977 for the Bilderberg’s annual meeting which took place in England that year. In 1978 FARI was co-sponsor with ISC and the […]

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