The view from the bridge

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[…] and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been forgotten. The Soviet ‘threat’ in the post-war years was […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a very good 25 page paper, ‘Zersetzen: Some Precedents’.37 Of this paper Russell writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a CIA-backed union in France in the 1940s and then for the CIA’s Radio Free Europe. In the late 1950s he began working with the reformist, anti- Communist democrat José Figueres in Costa Rica. By the early 1960s, with funding from the Parvin Foundation and another CIA conduit, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Volman […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘a strike-breaking force that included all sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and The […]

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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘Maisky and Rab were closeted together for nearly two hours!’ (3 October 1940) and concluded with ‘Rab had a long conference with Maisky this afternoon; the filthy communist was rude, pessimistic and obstructive’. (27 November 1940) What were they discussing? Channon doesn’t say. He must have known, Zoia de Stoeckl and her husband Alfons […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] settler and Zionist propagandist. His most recent book, Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel, published in April 2021. This focuses on the imminent threat of Communist revolution in the USA, which is already underway, spearheaded by the Democrats. Once again, the Left are condemned as the most dangerous anti-Semites, financed inevitably by […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] Republican campaign against Hillary Clinton was just more of the same. Similar – and more serious – charges were made against Bill Clinton. That Clinton was a communist. In fact there are reasonably good reports that he was recruited by the CIA, while a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, to report on American students in […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on the work of David Horowitz for this. His readers are reminded that, while Obama’s father might well have been a Muslim, his mother was ‘a secular Communist’. Indeed, the Left with their new ‘liberaligion’ are facilitating the work of the Islamists, condemning anyone daring to make a stand as ‘a racist, an Islamophobe, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Richard Gott’s account (above) of the Guardian’s long-standing pro-American stance made me wonder, for the umpteenth time, if the Guardian had been part of the NCL (non- communist left) supported/penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the […]

Livingstone, Zionism and the Nazis

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the Jews 1933-49. Cesarani was descended from Italian immigrants to Britain and both his grandparents and parents were left-wing. His father, a hairdresser, had joined the Communist Party in the 1930s. As Cesarani puts it: ‘Neither my father nor my mother showed much interest in Israel…. For my father the Soviet Union was […]

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