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 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] just before the publicity campaign began for the third series of the Servant of the People sitcom.135 In September 2018, Kolomoisky moved from Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. Bohdan and Zelensky then made three known joint visits to Tel Aviv in quick succession, during October, November, and December 2018. Neither Bohdan nor Zelensky has […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] just before the publicity campaign began for the third series of the Servant of the People sitcom.135 In September 2018, Kolomoisky moved from Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. Bohdan and Zelensky then made three known joint visits to Tel Aviv in quick succession, during October, November, and December 2018. Neither Bohdan nor Zelensky has […]

View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] 4 The car bomb assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was the fourth such murder of a nuclear scientist in Iran since 2010. Initially the Iranian authorities blamed Israel for the attack after the former Israeli military spokesman Brigadier Yuav Mordechi revelled in the murder. But it’s difficult to see how MOSSAD agents could remain […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] 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. Gemstones are […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] goes on: ‘Marxist-Trotskyists like Corbyn imbibed Marx’s sentiment without explicitly acknowledging its anti-Semitism, but the virus influenced Corbyn’s language so that he automatically challenged the right of Israel to exist’. And all the time, ‘the anti-Zionists’ language had become increasingly anti-Semitic’. (pp. 129, 132). Indeed, as far as Corbyn was concerned ‘Jews were automatically […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the disasters of the Blood Year and after is not explored. We shall return to this question. And much the same goes for the part played by Israel. Similarly, while he quite correctly indicts the corruption of the Maliki government in Iraq, he does not criticise the even more corrupt Karzai government in Afghanistan, […]

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 […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] spending. New NATO countries buy US weapons and/or communications systems when they join. Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead Israel and Dallas, I ‘Reconnecting the dots: state-terrorist relations during the Cold War’ at . Richterova is at King’s College, London, which is partially funded by the […]

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