View from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.1 Cormac recently wrote an essay with the provocative title ‘In defence of the Information Research Department’.2 He writes: At its […]

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[…] 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. […]

Last post for Oswald

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] served with a subpoena. This proves to be the key to understanding a substantial part of this episode. The FBI’s mail interception program had to be kept hidden (in fact it did not come to light until the 1970s); and doing so meant that the fact that the mis-addressed Nixie parcel had almost been […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.1 Cormac recently wrote an essay with the provocative title ‘In defence of the Information Research Department’.2 He writes: At its […]

lob86View from Bridge

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. […]

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

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

lob86View from Bridge

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. […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia — with ‘collateral damage’ in the US itself. Much more needs to be said about this war since it remains largely hidden in the swamp of deniability. Finally there was the fourth Vietnam War: the unrelenting hostility combined with all the available systemic weapons deployed since 1975 in […]

View from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* The Skripal inquiry Or, more accurately, the inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who died after absorbing novichok in Salisbury. Some of the inquiry’s proceedings are available. As you would expect, most of it is of little interest but there was this oddity. Below is part […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] are adept at collecting and controlling such information – such as law enforcement, spies, private eyes, journalists and lawyers – thus play a key role in the hidden campaigns of the deep state. One perverse measure of the importance of sex in America’s ‘deep politics’ is the paucity of systematic attention paid to it […]

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