lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

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[…] years ago, my co-author and I published our fourth book. It was called Going South (Palgrave Macmillan), and predicted that Britain was on course to becoming Th ird World in economic and social terms. or 10 11 12 4 Not everyone was a fan, and a rival school of thought suggested everything was going […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] data uncovered by their app. The one for June 2022 included this The top five Canadian Green-rated websites in terms of their engagement during the first th ird of 2022 included CTVNews.ca, CBC.ca, GlobalNews.ca, ThePostMillennial.com, and Narcity.com. The top five Red-rated websites in Canada included RebelNews.com, JCCF.ca, TheNationalTelegraph.com, ThePulse.one, and GlobalResearch.ca. In the U.S., […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] International, on whose board he was for a while, he said: ‘Amnesty International is primarily motivated not by human rights but by publicity. Second comes money. Th ird comes getting more members. Fourth, internal turf battles. And then finally, human rights, genuine human rights concerns.’45 This is reminiscent of Colin Wallace saying that the […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] and all that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department ( IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.2 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] and all that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department ( IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.2 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] – had there been any we would have heard about it – and Ireland-as-Cuba was simply an invention by those creative amplifiers of the ‘red menace’ at IRD. (Bloom does not mention IRD.) Bloom then tells us that Neave met Wallace three times and ‘Wallace was dismissed with £70 for his information.’ (p. 53) […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] more relaxed, with Roger Hollis recommending that he could be ‘left to his plays’. What of Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one th ird genius, one third blackguard and one third lunatic’, which seems pretty fair. His trajectory from Comintern agent to Cold Warrior is usefully documented, right up until […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of 18 19 < https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/First_ever_documents_of_Le _Cercle.htm> the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department ( IRD) was destroyed in a complex operation in which the CIA traitor, Philip Agee, played a leading part.’ Notice the misdirection: that IRD was the arm of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Soviet propaganda machine, led by the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department ( IRD) was destroyed in a complex operation in which the CIA traitor, Philip Agee, played a leading part.’ Notice the misdirection: that IRD was the arm of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a we ird coincidence that the source of the outbreak and the research lab were both in the same city? The reluctance I quote him below under subhead Broken-down […]

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