View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] by M.I.5. (Port Talbot ; Badger Moon Publishers, 1989). 18 See for example, and or . 19 20 21 or 22 8 another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.23 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done by the left. But a group on the right, calling itself Marco Polo, has done […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] The 9/11 attack further strengthened this Christian macho masculinity, with the Christian Right supporting not just the subsequent intervention in Afghanistan, but also the unprovoked invasion of Iraq. In 2002, ‘69 percent of conservative Christians favoured military action, a full 10 percentage points higher than the general population’. As Jerry Falwell proclaimed in a […]

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]: […] he served as ambassador to Honduras during the US wars in Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s. He then went on to serve as ambassador to occupied Iraq. These assignments are only surprising to those who do not know that he learned counter-insurgency doctrine and practice as a 27-year-old in Vietnam. The same applied […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 12 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.13 8 See for example, and or . 9 10 11 or 12 or 13 5 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done […]

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

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] bomb during an air raid, with several officers killed but nevertheless reported with grim 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 […]

Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] be abused elsewhere. Grange, now dead, subsequently resigned his post while under investigation for failing to investigate a judge accused 1 Rose later spread some of the Iraq War propaganda and then tried to rehabilitate himself with an article in the New Statesman openly admitting that he had for years been open to ‘manipulation’ […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] embedding in what is for the rest of them a clear clique with a deeply pro-establishment bent. Those who were in Parliament at the time supported the Iraq war, which doesn’t bode well for their intelligence analysis. Now Brexit has sharpened some of their antipathy to the serial rebel Corbyn. Probably speaking for all […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 12 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.13 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done by the left. But a group on the right, calling itself Marco Polo, has done […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] for them? Lord Levy’s levy I was a member of the Labour Party for about 20 years, finally quitting when the UK joined the US assault on Iraq. Hence my interest in the ‘anti-semitism– in–Labour’ issue. What is happening would be comic were its consequences not so serious. Though I’m not sure what the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 12 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.13 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done by the left. But a group on the right, calling itself Marco Polo, has done […]

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