View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] are largely only pawns, radicalized with weaponized nationalism to face killing and death without squinting in the service of empire. Meanwhile, safely a few steps detached and hidden behind the façade of liberalism or feigned benevolence and endless trails of front organizations, the power players keep their hands clean and faces out of sight. […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] pathways’ are those generated by HAARP’s ability to deposit extremely low frequency waves into a given area for the purpose of tomography, or ‘x-raying’ the Earth for hidden bunkers and mineral resources. According to the Air Force Materiel Command’s Geophysical Directive, HAARP could do this as far back as 1996. In 1999, the European […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] son was pushed against a wall. Sarah was denied her medication. Christmas decorations were smashed. Christmas candles broken. Personal items were stuffed into a mattress, and allegedly hidden, by police. Cash was allegedly stolen. All electronic equipment was confiscated. Sarah was handcuffed so tight it cut off the circulation to her hands. No search […]

The economic crisis continues

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] higher risk (gambling). Banks’ profits, like their contribution to GDP, may have been flattered by the mis-measurement of risk….. this increase in risk was to some extent hidden by the opacity of accounting disclosures (Enron accounting; lying) or the complexity of the products involved….. ‘…..because banks are in the risk business it should be […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] son was pushed against a wall. Sarah was denied her medication. Christmas decorations were smashed. Christmas candles broken. Personal items were stuffed into a mattress, and allegedly hidden, by police. Cash was allegedly stolen. All electronic equipment was confiscated. Sarah was handcuffed so tight it cut off the circulation to her hands. No search […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar’s airplanes and obtained film of Escobar and Ministry of the Interior officials loading cocaine onto one of Escobar’s planes at Managua’s […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Twenty Year Crisis 1919-1939 and Mark Mazower’s Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present (London: Penguin, 2012) 17 6 points to the hidden assumptions of managerialism: that science can control nature, people can be controlled, and, most recently, that organization is best affected via the market as the most […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] crime. 6 then the memoir proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material.

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

Lobster Issue

[…] either efficient or fair, or is leading to the well-being of society.’ (p. 200). What Stiglitz is complaining about here is both the amount of taxpayer subsidy, hidden and overt which American business receives, from agricultural subsidies to the present gigantic banking bailout, and the general ability of corporate America to reduce competition through […]

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