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 […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] unpredictable outcome of a CIA operation that, in the simplest terms, tripped on its own shoelaces.’6 3 His theory was amplified by authors of the best-seller Silent Coup and endorsed on the speaker circuit by Watergate burglar Gordon Liddy.6 4 They hold that when details of a Columbia Plaza prostitution ring became known to […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must I hate to say ‘I told you so’. . . . In Lobster 90 I reviewed Ben Macintyre’s The Siege, about the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.1 In that I commented that, due to its ‘amalgam of fact and fiction’ along with an ‘(albeit brief) appearance […]

Must, Border

Lobster Issue

South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must I hate to say ‘I told you so’. . . . In Lobster 90 I reviewed Ben Macintyre’s The Siege, about the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.1 In that I commented that, due to its ‘amalgam of fact and fiction’ along with an ‘(albeit brief) appearance […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] https://inews.co.uk/news/world/desperate-prevent-putin-invasion-ukrainebaroness-catherine-ashton-2124097 41 or 39 or 40 attacks against the majority-ethnic Russian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, 16 WHEN JOURNALISTS ACT AS STATE PROPAGANDISTS Peter Oborne https://declassifieduk.org/when-journalists-act-as-statepropagandists/ and coup stuff https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/on-the-influence-of-neo-nazism-inu k r a i n e / ? eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=9348b1cb-9ef6-463d-896c-81950c3f3b9d www.reuters.com /investigates/special-report/usa-election-montgomery/ The man behind Trump World’s myth of rigged voting machines 1980 UK third […]

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

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] had been an ugly local skirmish, with the real action taking place through the court system, whereas the events of 6 January 2021 were indisputably an attempted coup d’etat, instigated by outgoing president Donald Trump.3 It only failed due to a lack of organisation, and an ultimatum delivered in the strongest constitutional terms by […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the Generals made clear, repeatedly, that they would not countenance Trump trying to overthrow the election result. They refused to be a part of the kind of coup Trump was clearly plotting – which would have put in place an authoritarian regime modelled on those he so openly admired. If they had made it […]

Garrick 1-6 this one

Lobster Issue

[…] had been an ugly local skirmish, with the real action taking place through the court system, whereas the events of 6 January 2021 were indisputably an attempted coup d’etat, instigated by outgoing president Donald Trump.3 It only failed due to a lack of organisation, and an ultimatum delivered in the strongest constitutional terms by […]

Garrick 1-6 this one

Lobster Issue

[…] had been an ugly local skirmish, with the real action taking place through the court system, whereas the events of 6 January 2021 were indisputably an attempted coup d’etat, instigated by outgoing president Donald Trump.3 It only failed due to a lack of organisation, and an ultimatum delivered in the strongest constitutional terms by […]

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