The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be a state/deep state conspiracy because there was no air or 61 Northwoods was a proposal to run ‘false flag’ operations to provide a pretext for invading Cuba. The original documents are at . 62 19 defence.’ (I don’t know what happened to that line of thought.63) And the third was claims that it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a profile of Holt by Bill Kelly when he first appeared in the early 90s. ‘Driving to New Orleans, Holt, Belcher and Young delivered Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets to Guy Bannister’s Camp Street office. Holt had made the leaflets in California. “These were professionally done, and not the leaflets with the 544 […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] read little of the false flag literature on 9/11. I cannot persuade Northwoods was a proposal to run ‘false flag’ operations to provide a pretext for invading Cuba. The original documents are at . 61 Nick Must commented: This petered out when it became clear that NORAD, the U.S. air defence radar system, had […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Thom Hartmann, ‘The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery’, Truth Out, 15 January 2013 at . However it was not until the war against Spain garnished Cuba, the Philippines and sundry islands in the Caribbean and Pacific basins that official American discourse began to admit imperial designs. Apparently this admission was only deemed […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare T. J. Coles Didn’t it rain Declassified records show that from 1949 to 1955, the Royal Air Force (RAF) released various substances, including dry ice, silver iodide, and salt into the atmosphere at high altitudes in order to induce rain. ‘The clouds would then precipitate, pulled down […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] genuine, many forged.196 For the most part IRD tried, yet again, to establish the insurgents as a part of the Soviet global conspiracy: Ireland was ‘the next Cuba’. But after the re-election of the Wilson government in 1974 they also began trying to show support for the IRA from a Labour Party influenced by […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

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[…] intentions in 1947-1948 and the instigation (and continuation) of the Cold War; the decision to undermine the 1954 Geneva Peace Agreement on Vietnam; the absurd blockade of Cuba; and the unprecedented support for and identification with Israel. Why does the US behave like this? Is there a common thread here? Is its detached geographical […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] income taxes were actually higher than in Sweden. Erlander handed over to Palme, Prime Minister 1969-1976 and 1982-1986. Palme was more obviously of the left. He visited Cuba (the first western leader to do so), criticised the US bombing of Hanoi and supported the PLO and ANC. He introduced a constitution that greatly diminished […]

View from the bridge

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[…] something invisible. And this began almost 10 years ago. Yet this is the official US position as of 2023. Since US officials first reported AHIs in Havana, Cuba in late 2016, the IC has sought to understand whether these events can be attributed to a foreign actor and a deliberate external mechanism. The IC […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] to the hilt. Officials from the president on down mentioned it at every opportunity as proof of the Sandinistas’ immorality. “High level officials” of both Nicaragua and Cuba “have been personally implicated” in drug smuggling, Reagan said during the 1985 debates over contra aid (Reagan 1987:673–76). The State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy, which […]

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