The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] our Eastern Neighbourhood programme. We are supporting partners through training, mentoring and skill-building to improve audiences’ access to high-quality, accurate and engaging content, which can help counter disinformation and support democracy and prosperity in these politically fragile contexts. And, in addition to supporting journalists, editors, and producers by strengthening editorial skills and strategy, we […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a great final sentence but the gist is clear enough. * There has been a lot of research and comment on Russia’s so-called hybrid warfare – sabotage, disinformation, assassination, psy-ops etc. – as a quick google demonstrates. The Daily Telegraph ran a long piece on some recent events in Germany which seem to show […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] hitherto. Did Sheehan really see the classified sections of Blue Book? It seems highly improbable to me. More likely, surely, that he was the object of a disinformation operation. I wonder if the long US military disinformation project in the 1980s on UFOs, which climaxed with the MJ-12 nonsense about US government-alien contact, began […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] letter, and Erickson’s response, to the FBI on 18 December 1963. See . 66 67 Grose (see note 23) p. 545 24 website devoted to fact-checking online disinformation, hoaxes, and rumours, set out to debunk the list once and for all. It didn’t succeed. Although the Snopes author tried his hardest, the attempted point-by-point […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] available evidence, Mr Blake Knox’s analysis is factually mistaken. In Part II, I explain why such errors are symptomatic of a broader pattern of deliberate and sustained disinformation by Government agencies, designed to conceal wrongdoings of the past Loyalty, a much-misused term during the post-1968 Northern Irish ‘Troubles’, travels in two directions, upwards and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, which details the life and high crimes of Daniel Ortega. How much of this is true? Given the level of disinformation produced against the Sandinistas by the US government, this is difficult to 1 The Gow memorandum can be read at . Page 39 Summer 2011 Lobster […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] the Ukrainian parliament, let us not forget – of Russian-backed President Yanukovych. The Russians claim that the West began the war in 2014 but that is just disinformation. The Russians began the war that year. Yes, the activities of NATO/US and, to a much lesser extent, the EU in Ukraine in encouraging Ukraine to […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] trade unions, headed by someone who might be a Soviet stooge.10 Labour took office again in 1974 and there followed two years of talks of coups, surveillance, disinformation and smears against members of the Labour government, climaxing with Wilson’s retirement.1 1 In the midst of this Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party, […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] alien vehicles – two of them close to but not at Roswell, New Mexico, with dead bodies and one ‘Messing with the UFO-minded’, a subsection of ‘The disinformation hall of fame’ in Lobster 40. 5 The MJ-12 papers are about a quarter of the way down the file at . NB this is the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] is presently constructed – ceases to exist. Until these two things happen, people who have spent most of their careers trying to detect Western covert ops and disinformation will continue to view events there with suspicion. In another profile of Higgins,56 Rob Hastings quotes him as saying: ‘We proved that the Syrian dictator Bashar […]

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