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[…] in America, especially the John Birch Society, which saw his book as proof that there really was a great conspiracy. It might not have been the great communist conspiracy the Birchers previously thought they could see but it was a conspiracy nonetheless.48 I was reminded of Quigley by a recently acquired copy of a […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

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, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] essay I glanced at, US Army officer Michael Ferguson’s short piece ‘The Evolution of Disinformation: How Public Opinion Became Proxy’.69 (Proxy?) Ferguson reminds his readers that the Communist International ran propaganda against the West and that the KGB created the Michael Lind, ‘The debunked “Russian influence” nonsense is infantilizing liberals’ at or . 67 […]

More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] that allowed trusted interlocutors to side-step belligerent generals and committed political adversaries, without any of the complications of democracy. Monarchs also tended to share Hitler’s virulently anti- communist views.5 In the Hess case, we should note that after his second conversation with the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke came to London (15 May) and […]

The Darkest Sides of Politics I & II by Jeffrey M Bale

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Project Coast, its exploration and use of chemical and biological weapons; and an account of the Unification Church (the ‘Moonies’), the Korean CIA and the World Anti- Communist League – all fine pieces of detailed parapolitical work. And then 9/11 happens and Bale sets out to explain On-line at or . 3 For volume […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Free on 16 July: ‘The core of New Labour was a bitchy queen, a depressive fawner upon powerful men, a couple of messianics, a coterie of ex- Communist Party opportunists, a few jaded, modist “thinkers” and a young Praetorian guard of ambitious student politicians and assorted money-grubbing lobbyists. A bit more complicated than this? […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] of the country as far as he was concerned: We were living in a country that was almost the opposite of everything it claimed to be, the communist system promised equality, justice, and security. Instead the Soviet state offered no effective safety net; its officials were mostly corrupt and barely competent; it was lacking […]

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