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 […]

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.

JFK tramps Lob 71

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. Holt says he went […]

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 […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act’. Surely, if there had been some sort of all pervasive hidden conspiracy then ‘these people could have been saved by the millions; but instead they were taken completely by surprise’. (p. 38) The people he was murdering […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Calling the Israel lobby’s activities an open conspiracy is meant to convey a sense that there is a conspiracy – but part of it is visible, not hidden. Ezra Klein, ‘Was the Democratic primary rigged?’ or . 8 Anthony J. Gaughan, ‘Was the Democratic Nomination Rigged? A Reexamination of the Clinton-Sanders Presidential Race’ in […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] MI6 was monitoring Howard Marks and James McCann. In November 1973, Marks was arrested by the Dutch police for his part in smuggling cannabis to the US, hidden in loud speakers for rock concerts. Shortly before this, (according to the prosecution at his later trial in the UK) MI6 had severed contact with him. […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] There are indications – no, actually considerably more than mere indications – that some of the most infamous terrorist attacks of recent years were guided by a hidden hand with a degree of technical know-how beyond that of the bombers themselves. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, wasn’t actually capable of making the bombs […]

Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] from interviews used by Cornelius Ryan – that I will briefly recount a little of what still largely remains to the British public a part of our hidden history. Urquhart recounts that in 1941 ‘Boy’ Browning, the youthful, ambitious and well-connected husband of novelist Daphne du Maurier (their daughter was later to marry Montgomery’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] MP writes for Morning Star, therefore Labour MP is a communist sympathiser; therefore the Labour Party is communist. Geoffrey Stewart-Smith’s big pamphlet in the mid 1970s, The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, was a classic of this kind. 37 Obviously I am describing a version of political correctness. The British Right lampoons the […]

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