The view from the bridge

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[…] COVER STORY: ’On the Origins of Seditious Discourse’ by Joseph E.Green 34 ‘Why Bush & Cheney Should Not Be Trusted on 9/11’ by David Ray Griffin ‘ Nixon in the Jungle’ by Jim Hougan Did a pre-presidential meeting in the jungle between Nixon and a militaristic priest escalate ‘Nam? ‘A Call from Hunt: Inside […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.66 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] order to fund the costly wars in Korea and Vietnam – so massive it was becoming a threat to the value of the US dollar and the Nixon administration was faced with the possibility of a devaluation. Since the establishment of the fixed exchange rates in the Bretton Woods agreements – which also created […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.48 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]

Misc reviews

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Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.48 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.27 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] daily drama in Wilson’s kitchen cabinet was a Strindberg play with scenes from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ (p. 214) We get another go round Watergate and Nixon without any of the more recent work on the story. He portrays all manner of potentially interesting material, and declines to draw any conclusions from it […]

The Solipsist Revolution: Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] and Washington 2021 was Roger Stone (born 1952), a Republican-aligned political operative, who had been notorious as a ‘dirty trickster’ ever since his involvement with the Richard Nixon administration of the early 1970s. In 2000, Stone had worked on Trump’s first, abortive presidential campaign, before jumping ship to the Republican Party and helping to […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] on the list of his exposés is long. He reported on the Watergate scandal for the New York Times (had Fox News existed at the time would Nixon have got away with it?); he helped destroy the reputation of the international war criminal, Henry Kissinger; he revealed US involvement in the overthrow of the […]

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