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]: […] the killing and maiming of millions of its inhabitants. It took until 1995, twenty years after the last helicopter lifted off of the roof of the Saigon embassy compound before the ‘loser’ extended full diplomatic recognition to the country that had defeated it. President William Clinton was quoted as saying that the time was […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] relations at the time was facilitated by MI5. For not only did they have the Party bugged and penetrated, they knew about the money from the Soviet embassy which was keeping it going.22 I have suggested before in these columns that had MI5 exposed the Soviet funding after the Red Army rolled its tanks […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] of ‘directed energy’ is also endorsed by a group of scientists who concluded that microwaves was the most plausible explanation The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power […]

The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] material posted to his home and a message left on his home answering machine insinuating an affair which was traced back to an employee of the Canadian Embassy. 23 No evidence has been offered to substantiate rumours that Kerr was a former Special Branch officer, though little is known about his past. 24 Interview […]

We don’t need no…

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] then knew as a “Disneyland”, but subsequently learned to call a theme park.’ The next day Cole recounted this to the Economic Attaché of the United States embassy: ‘He looked at me in genuine astonishment, thoughtfully laid down his fork, and exclaimed: “But gee, John, you can’t all make a living opening doors for […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] introduction to the Israelis by his law chambers colleague and president of the Board of Deputies Eldred Tabachnik. Nor is it still widely known that the Israeli embassy introduced Blair to Levy, who then opened the till that freed his tennis pal from party obligations. Much of what happened under the Blair premiership remains […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] US diplomatic personnel being assaulted by some kind of Russian beam weapon – presumably, but not definitively, microwave based. (The first such reports came from the US embassy in Havana.) The first item was a story which came out of the US attack on Venezuela. A member of the Venezuelan armed forces is reported […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] operating on Ukrainian territory. What Nalyvaichenko undoubtedly did have, however, was contacts in Washington DC, established during his time there as a consul to the city’s Ukrainian Embassy. Soon after Nalyvaichenko put forward his tale of mobile crematoriums in Ukraine, it was picked up, parroted, and embellished by two key figures on the US […]

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