The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] an early book – Shadow Warfare – wondering if something so obvious and so ‘retro’ could possibly work. As it turns out the answer is ‘yes’ and Putin is playing that track far better than the U.S. did when it drove the Soviet Union bankrupt. Basically the strategy is to spend so much on […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] an early book – Shadow Warfare – wondering if something so obvious and so ‘retro’ could possibly work. As it turns out the answer is ‘yes’ and Putin is playing that track far better than the U.S. did when it drove the Soviet Union bankrupt. Basically the strategy is to spend so much on […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the […]

ATTACK WARNING RED! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] original Cold War – and any number of James Bond movies – this version has multiple villains each with their own destructive agendas. From the possibly psychotic Putin to the deep mind of Xi Jin Ping, to Kim Jong Un and now maybe even the genocidally– minded Netanyahu, this cold war has potential nuclear […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Floating around The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange Nick Must At one of the recent hearings related to Julian Assange’s possible extradition to the U.S., the lead barrister for the defence made the ‘extraordinary claim’ that, in August of 2017, President Donald Trump had offered an amnesty to the Wikileaks founder.1 This offer […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] also involved in trying to secure alternative funding for Marine Le Pen’s Front National. He proposed they replace their Russian backers – ‘Russian gangsters likely fronting for Putin’, who had loaned the party $13 million – with ‘right-wing Jews and supporters of Israel’. (pp. 162-163) The Russian involvement with the European Far Right is […]

The Trump threat or the rule of the Don

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] provoke opposition on the streets that will also provide a justification for suspending elections if necessary. Trump wants to rule the USA in the same way that Putin rules Russia. He is openly envious of Putin who has the Russian media completely under his control, singing his praises; has a largely cowed and intimidated […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: ‘Crazytown’ John Newsinger Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 The Shadow President: The Truth about Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 Bob […]

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