The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] memorandum of that conversation. There was more than a touch of ‘poker’ to this conversation. RFK told Hoover that Sullivan’s dossier was causing some debate at the Pentagon, and, now that he was aware of that debate, RFK was getting alarmed. RFK didn’t show his hand to the hated Hoover, and didn’t express any […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] is a belter (the emphasis is mine): ‘In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the 9 For example: the claims that no plane hit the Pentagon; that there were no planes at all, they were holograms; that the buildings were destroyed by nukes in the basements; that the buildings were destroyed by […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] which they are inserted75 but will increase anti-American feeling and thus – and this is the only point of them – will generate new ‘enemies’ for the Pentagon to fight; with expensive ordnance76 provided by the arms manufacturers; a small fraction of whose profits will be used to bribe Congress. This is the really […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] and gave up. That material is on a disk somewhere. Truth is, I could never take the US-did-9/11 thesis seriously, because of the targets: Manhattan and the Pentagon. I just could not imagine any US conspirators deciding to attack those locations. Had it been Disneyland, or some provincial city, OK. But not those towers […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

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[PDF file]: […] the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] historical examples of false flag events providing a casus belli. But here’s the thing: the previous examples were all small beer. Attacking the twin towers and the Pentagon was a huge event. Let’s say that an inter-service alliance within the US military-intelligence complex – and that’s what would be required – decided that they […]

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[…] historical examples of false flag events providing a casus belli. But here’s the thing: the previous examples were all small beer. Attacking the twin towers and the Pentagon was a huge event. Let’s say that an inter-service alliance within the US military-intelligence complex – and that’s what would be required – decided that they […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the US the prime examples are the ‘muckraking journalism’ originating in the so-called Progressive Era, spanning from 1890s to 1920s, and more recently the publication of the Pentagon Papers through Daniel Ellsberg. While liberals treat both of these examples favourably, their histories, however, are far more ambivalent than sentimentally presented. To understand this ambivalence, […]

Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to viewers of CNN’s ‘Larry King Live’ programme that his growing belief in a UFO cover-up at Roswell had driven him to seek an audience at the Pentagon: ‘Well, I eventually went to the Pentagon and asked for a meeting with Or would have worked, had the Soviet Union been conducting nuclear tests prior […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] if it provided military aid to Israel.108 (emphases added) Golan alleges that Kissinger mislead Israeli Ambassador Dinitz with claims that the shipments were being ‘sabotaged by the Pentagon’, with Deputy Secretary of Defense, William Clements (a Texan oil magnate), later singled out as the scapegoat.109 And yet, all the while it was Kissinger who […]

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