The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] omissions . . . . Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979/80.69 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on his return to the US, he […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

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[PDF file]: […] significant world role and the current US leadership is not overly bothered if the UK is its ally or not in its various tribulations with North Korea, Iran and Russia. Instead, we are left with the thought that the couple of weeks of intrigue that ‘did’ for Eden were essentially a coup carried out […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] omissions . . . . Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979/80.69 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on his return to the US, he […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the gravest […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] in ‘35,900,145,035 known records breached’.32 Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979/80.33 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on his return to the US, he […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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[…] like Mary Poppins meets Adrian Mole. For example, she describes how she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? Or […]

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] irony as ‘killed in action’! (p. 36) Smiley went on to serve in Iraq and Syria before taking part in the 2 little known British occupation of Iran, a joint operation with the Russians. For a while, he was stationed in Tehran where he and his fellow officers had ‘an enjoyable time’, especially in […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2022, £25 (h/b) John Booth If you need a revival of spirit and energy this summer, Peter Oborne’s ambitious new book could help top up your political Vitamin D. For in its telling of some of the history […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

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[…] in ‘35,900,145,035 known records breached’.17 Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran in 1979/80.18 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on his return to the US, he […]

The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: The writer with no hands Matthew Alford www.amazon.co.uk/Writer-No-Hands-MatthewAlford/dp/1530122651 Alford completed a PhD, which became the book Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy (London: Pluto, 2010). His central thesis of that is that large budget, mainstream American movies, ‘….almost always express the notion that in its foreign policy, the endless wars in which it engages, […]

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