The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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 […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] President Nixon’s directive in the summer of 1971 to uncover and silence unauthorized leakers of administration secrets. Topping their list of targets was Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon official who had helped draft the top-secret Pentagon Papers, a highly critical study of the history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg had leaked the 7,000page report […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] they are inserted7 7 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 ordnance 7 8 provided by the arms manufacturers; a small fraction of whose profits will be used to bribe Congress. This is […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] state: he was infamous for his secrecy, for his back-room manipulation of politicians and government agencies, and for making billions of dollars from his work for the Pentagon and intelligence community as their budgets soared through the Cold War and Vietnam era. Nixon was his kind of politician: willing to trade favors for power, […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Republicans stealing the election for George W. Bush. (Remember the hanging chads in Florida?) There were also pilots who could not believe the plane that hit the Pentagon could have been flown so fast and so low. However the majority thought the Twin Towers were obviously demolished by explosive charges. Among the early advocates […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Republicans stealing the election for George W. Bush. (Remember the hanging chads in Florida?) There were also pilots who could not believe the plane that hit the Pentagon could have been flown so fast and so low. However the majority thought the Twin Towers were obviously demolished by explosive charges. Among the early advocates […]

Lob86ViewfromBridgepdf

Lobster Issue

[…] Republicans stealing the election for George W. Bush. (Remember the hanging chads in Florida?) There were also pilots who could not believe the plane that hit the Pentagon could have been flown so fast and so low. However the majority thought the Twin Towers were obviously demolished by explosive charges. Among the early advocates […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Republicans stealing the election for George W. Bush. (Remember the hanging chads in Florida?) There were also pilots who could not believe the plane that hit the Pentagon could have been flown so fast and so low. However the majority thought the Twin Towers were obviously demolished by explosive charges. Among the early advocates […]

Hollow Hegemony

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 Robin Ramsay I shouldn’t be reviewing this book: I am not qualified to do so. What do I know about international relations theory, which is what this book is about? And, in any case, its subject matter is really outside Lobster’s field. […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] regime in perception management and propaganda. This is downplayed by Harvey, as is the avowedly revolutionary transformation in US strategy brought in by Donald Rumsfeld to the Pentagon. The centrepiece here was a declaratory policy of, if needs be, preemptive war.5 Harvey himself, and many other observers, agree that a likely Gore administration approach […]

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