View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Willmets on the impact, both domestically and internationally, of the book by David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government, the first book in English about the CIA, which kicked much of this off.4 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Willmets on the impact, both domestically and internationally, of the book by David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government, the first book in English about the CIA, which kicked much of this off.4 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The times they might be a-changin’ One day in July I was reading ‘ CIA has a long history of empowering monsters’ by the editor of Covert Action Magazine, Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, but predictable from that source. That same […]

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]: […] admired it, could overcome the disinformation used by the US government and US corporations to depict any 14 Philip Agee pointed out that in Latin America the CIA station were passing money to everyone, including the Left. The US/UK supported Pol Pot in Cambodia (against Vietnam). In another words there have always been policy […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace Continues at the foot of the next page. political dissent, coordinated by the FBI (e.g. COINTELPRO) and CIA but ultimately initiated and maintained by the major corporate conglomerates whose central goal was to perpetuate the military-industrial gravy train that World War II brought them.3 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – wrote a very good summary of the case for the CIA-dunnit scenario of Kennedy’s death. In this, the CIA organised the assassination because Kennedy was getting too friendly with Castro. Simkin recounts some of the informal contacts between Castro’s people and various deniable Americans, notably […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the realms of their own minds.’ 2 (emphases added) * For the second time Ambrose Evans-Pritchard had an article in the Daily Telegraph pointing out that the CIA was the initial promoter of the European Union. ‘The European Union always was an American project. It was Washington that drove European integration in 2 Danny […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of guarding nuclear weapons. “Who guards the guards?” … well, the 14th did. When the KGB gave a copy of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] See . 7 The agendas for all Bilderberg meetings are now available on the Group’s own website. The earliest years start at . 8 According to the CIA biography of Admiral Hillenkoetter, he had previously undertaken ‘Several tours as Assistant Naval Attaché, France: 1933-35, 1938-40, 1940-41 (Vichy regime), and 1946- 47’9 and was highly […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of guarding nuclear weapons. “Who guards the guards?” … well, the 14th did. When the KGB gave a copy of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western […]

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