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’.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

[…] . ‘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 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

[…] 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 […]

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, […]

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