The View from the Bridge

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[…] plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] word. Using it was an open invitation for curious readers to consult an encyclopedia and check what it meant. Anyone who did so would have spotted the hidden connection at once. The received wisdom about the Kennedy administration’s nickname ‘Camelot’ is that it was all the doing of his bereaved wife, Jackie, in an […]

Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice president Johnson. This is a story about American politics and business and what happens when the hidden business funding is threatened with exposure. When the story of Estes’ business dealings began to surface nationally in 1962 after reports in a local Texas paper, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] 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. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] that aren’t connected to the internet using radio waves. (Update: Clarification — the NSA can access offline computers through radio waves on which it has already installed hidden devices.) It can intercept phone calls by setting up fake base stations. It can remotely access a computer by setting up a fake wireless connection. It […]

The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] brought unanimity? Lastly and, indeed, in the very last chapter of the book, Rosthorn demonstrates that the police deliberately withheld evidence from the defence team. If this hidden evidence had been used by the defence at the trial, alongside other evidence available at the time, it would have immediately indicated that the case against […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the US was orchestrating his 2002 ouster due to the risk he posed of derailing the Iraq war agenda with successful negotiations, his office was packed with hidden surveillance equipment and that his American head of security vanished immediately after this was discovered. “The fact was that the wall behind my desk, the wall […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] high office in the United States’. (pp. 205-208) Indeed, Smock just cannot believe that Trump’s conduct in so many areas has not finally ‘stripped away all the hidden things that made him appeal to 60 million Americans’. Writing on 5 August 2019, he hoped that millions of those who voted for Trump in 2016 […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (O Books, 2004) pp. 180, 185, 252-253. The Lion Sleeps No More (2010), David Icke claims ‘the invasion of Iraq in 2003…was ordered (on behalf of their hidden masters) by the Rothschild assets, George W. Bush and Tony Blair.’16 According to Icke, the Bush Administration was in fact, ‘controlled by the so-called “neo-con” or […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) History […]

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