View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] . ‘The sector gave more than £60m to Boris Johnson’s party over ten years, new analysis by Transparency International shows.’ 25 10 Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970’.26 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] 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’.17 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] 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’.17 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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’.4 This is classic parapolitics: massive documentation (100 footnotes, many of them lengthy) from public sources used to analyse secret affairs. As getting a […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] or for the immense grammatical howlers such as ‘My Cameo Appearance on BBC Today programme, to discuss the Rhodes statue, not the Virus Panic’.40 (emphasis added) Bungled coup joke (stolen from a wag on Twitter) A spoof Yelp-type review of mercenary company ‘Silvercorp USA’:41 ‘Friendly service, clean office but got caught while planning a […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] class more palatable. With the support of the Democratic Party, the liberal media, academia and social media platforms in Silicon Valley, demonize the victims of the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with those who embrace identity politics, whether they are on Wall Street or in the Pentagon. They […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 Presidential election trying to enlist the support […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] not inspire confidence.33 Thus in the NewsGuard approach to Consortium News: NewsGuard alleges that Consortium News has published “false content” by reporting that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 and that neo-Nazis have significant influence in the country. Fishman took issue with a: “February 2022 article ‘Ukraine: Guides to Reflection,’ asserted, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] not inspire confidence.33 Thus in the NewsGuard approach to Consortium News: NewsGuard alleges that Consortium News has published “false content” by reporting that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 and that neo-Nazis have significant influence in the country. Fishman took issue with a: “February 2022 article ‘Ukraine: Guides to Reflection,’ asserted, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] not inspire confidence.5 Thus in the NewsGuard approach to Consortium News: NewsGuard alleges that Consortium News has published “false content” by reporting that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 4 Consortium News reposted an analysis of NewsGuard that (ex-CIA officer) John Kiriakou had originally written for ScheerPost.com. See . 5 3 2014 […]

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