View from Bridge 89

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[…] Union had no aggressive military intent and had developed its nuclear arsenal in response to NATO’s. The Russia of today is an aggressive, violent, kleptocracy, willing to kill tens of thousands of people – including its own citizens – in pursuit of geopolitical ends and the personal wealth of its leaders. Russiagate ‘Russiagate’ centres […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] politically powerful. I do not believe that the CIA, the military and/or the anti-Castro Cubans did the dirty deed in Dallas but lots of them wanted to kill JFK – and precisely because they saw the Kennedy administration as dragging its feet where Fidel was concerned. Some of this secret diplomacy is discussed in […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] peace overtures and that this will be listened to by the British government’. What emerged was a plot, presumably instigated some weeks earlier, to kidnap, interrogate and kill Hess. Liddell later records that in July 1941, seventeen Polish and two British officers, from a special forces base at Inverlochy Castle, Fort William, tried to […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] but hopefully expanding, power. The Establishment enjoys the luxury of the ultimate sanctions: the ability to impose its will through brute force. Whereas the Establishment can just kill its opponents or deprive them of the means to work and earn a living, the counter-Establishment can only deprive dissidents of attention, of access to the […]

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