View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] they are afraid/unwilling, I have no idea.9 Money well spent? Dropsitenews is carrying a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] intelligence ships that were used to monitor radio broadcasts of all types in selected locations around the world. These included the USS Liberty, which was attacked by Israel in the eastern Mediterranean in June 1967, and the USS Pueblo, captured off North Korea in 1968. The remainder continued in service until replaced by satellite […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] as: Bertil Wedin (aged 80, now living in North Cyprus), Alf Enerström (who died in 2017), Jakob Thedelin (a.k.a. David Fredin, in his 60s and living in Israel) and Victor Gunnarsson (who died 1993 and was a member of the Lyndon La Rouche network via the Swedish-based European Workers The murder, in London, of […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: The text below was the keynote speech at a conference at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) School of Advanced Study of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled ‘The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO’s “Migrated Archives” and “Special Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch […]

Londongrad – From Russia with cash

Lobster Issue

[…] entertain the likes of George Osbourne and Lord Mandelson. Some continued to dabble in the politics of their motherland and others with that of other countries, including Israel, with many oligarchs possessing passports from that country. The authors seek to measure the impact of their presence in Britain and list many ennobled Brits – […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] foremost a British term (derived from cricket). 10 A short but useful academic overview has since been published – see ‘Falafel and Apple Pie’, Dahlia Scheindlin and Israel WaismelManor (in Routledge Handbook of Political Management, 2009) Page 35 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 1990, where their novelist candidate Mario Vargas Llosa ignored their advice and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Party to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-semitism ‘in full together with all its examples’.16 Those ‘examples’17 are designed to make much of the criticism of Israel anti-semitism by definition. For the history of the long march of this new definition of anti-semitism through the world’s institutions, see the essay by Alison Weir.18 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Thatcher and then with the Americans. ‘Decisive’ – maybe not; but not insignificant. Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead Israel and Dallas, I stated ‘All we know for sure is that Angleton’s department of the CIA was reading Oswald’s mail in America after his return from […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] American arms companies, who are driving this, will have less need of the ‘terrorist threat’ their political fronts in America cobbled together in the early 1980s with Israel to justify their huge share of the US tax take; and just maybe the American presence in the Middle East and Africa will diminish. Bin Laden’s […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] broadcasting. A core part of his creed was that the white citizens of the US, UK and British Commonwealth were the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel and therefore entitled, according to Biblical prophesy, to inherit the Earth. Armstrong and the Radio Church of God also took the view that the coming Armageddon […]

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