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... it would not play an important part in their case. Then, in an apparent 'ambush' tactic, the Prosecution suddenly revealed undisclosed evidence through MoD scientist, Professor Meirion Francis Lewis. Professor Lewis was the only Prosecution witness to give significant testimony on the 'restricted' document; and he claimed he could personally identify its use on Britain's ALARM missile. Professor Lewis also claimed the document would enable an enemy to jam ALARM, which would put British lives at risk. He further claimed that Saddam Hussein had switched off his radar systems during the Gulf War (1991) due to ALARM. Professor Lewis said Marconi's Technical Director had personally confirmed the document's link to ALARM in a telephone ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-11.htm
... it produced didn't open. W hat is NATO for these days? It has two obvious functions: it provides nice jobs, careers, and perks for a slice of the military of its member states; and it generates weapons sales for (mostly American) weapons corporations. Reuters reported recently that NATO member Poland was about buy the Patriot missiles: 'Poland strike deals for US Patriot missile systems that could be worth up to $8 billion' was the subheading to the story.3 9 To sell weapons, 'threats' need to be created and thus the recent and current amplification of the 'threat from Russia'. Who owes who? John Ward's blog, The Slog, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 11 Nov 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... pieces from MI6. There was a puff piece by former MI6 officer Alan Petty, using his nom de plume Alan Judd, on the MI6 building in the wake of the IRA attack on it; and there was the latest in the long line of anti-Gaddafi pieces, this one claiming that Libya now has some North Korean ballistic missiles. The only stated source for the allegation was a 'Western intelligence official'. But four months before, on 28 May 2000, the Sunday Times article 'IRA investors make 300% profit out of Gaddafi cash donations', sourced back to 'MI5 documents seen by The Sunday Times', concluded by telling us that Swiss police were 'investigating ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-27.htm
... . In the 1997 film satire Wag the Dog, a 'threat' from Albania is created. In the satire-proof America of 2013 the threat is North Korea. The Washington Post reported on 15 March: 'The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country's defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast at a time of growing concern about the Stalinist regime. ' 38 Even though North Korea does not have a missile which can 37 A recent interpretation of Soviet post-war behaviour as not threatening, and the Cold War as essentially bogus, is Andrew Alexander, America and the imperialism of ignorance ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 18 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... that the secret services may 'have organised a "genuine" right-wing bombing at Bologna station in order to reinforce the idea that the Itavia disaster [when a civilian airliner had been shot down over Ustica killing 81 in a Libyan -- U.S . -- French aerial dogfight] was caused by a bomb rather than a missile, and thus strengthen the alibi of whichever NATO air force had been responsible for the disaster' (p . 170). Evidence since his book was published has tended to confirm suspicions of a cover-up concerning the Itavia incident, and he is undoubtedly correct in stressing the importance of the planting of a suitcase of explosives in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-11.htm
... favourite ally. There has been no other time in post-war and earlier history that Britain has so regularly conducted military inter-ventions as junior partner to the US, as in the repeated bombing of Iraq and the wars in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. ' As a vivid example, Curtis reminds us of Blair's support for the 1998 US missile attack on the Al Shifa plant in Sudan where 90 per cent of that very poor country's pharmaceuticals were made. In words to be almost exactly echoed five years later in support of the attack on Iraq, the British Prime Minister said: 'Our ally, the United States, said at the time of the strike against Al Shifa that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-09.htm
47. Feedback [Lobster #40 (Winter 2000/1)]
... intelligence factor in the Central Intelligence Agency at a far higher premium than I (and a great many others) do. The fact that non-US hardware was used by the CIA for its mining of Nicaraguan ports during the 1980s doesn't amount to very much, I think. During the same decade the CIA provided Afghan rebels with Stinger missiles to shoot down Soviet aircraft. The Stinger is so obviously American manufactured they might as well have had a cartoon picture of the President stencilled on them along with the message, Hi, I'm Ronnie Raygun, fly me! The less palatable fact of life is that the military and intelligence community is the residential home for comic cock- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-22.htm
... subsidised EU food imports. This creates massive social disruption and unemployment. In addition, they must spend at least 2% of their GDP on defence, preferably on arms made in the US. Consequently, a small country like Lithuania, whose economy has collapsed so catastrophically, has just announced the purchase of $34 million worth of Stinger missiles, made by the Raytheon Corporation of Tucson, Arizona. When Tanzania announced it was spending $40 million on a new civilian air traffic control system, there was an outcry; but Lithu-ania, whose official GDP is not much larger than Tanzania's, will have to spend $240m on arms every year as the price for ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-24.htm
... but Bruton's background is too interesting for that explanation. Bruton had been a lawyer in Virginia before becoming a submarine commander. Eventually he rose to be Director of Naval Communications. In that capacity he had undertaken to reorganise the global system which the US Navy uses to communicate with and control movements of its submarines, surface ships, airplanes and missiles. (The system is also used to pinpoint the location of enemy vessels.) Bruton had supervised this top secret project until 1960 when he retired from the Navy and joined Collins Radio as Vice-president, where he continued to work on modernising and refining the Navy's communication system. (see Legend, Edward Jay Epstein, London ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Feb 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue07/lob07-02.htm
... trading system was blocked — by algorithmic mass trading, naturally. As economist Professor Michael Hudson once observed, the average time period for which a share is held is approximately 22 seconds. These 'markets' are nothing more than a pathological sphere in which anonymous trader proxies shift around corners, disperse and regroup, stand about and watch or hurl missiles at edifices of the real economy and society. Masters of this kind of 'social media' do not evade police constables on foot, they dodge entire sovereign systems. Mr George Soros proudly sold the pound sterling short in the amount of GBP 10 billion by borrowing enormous amounts of sterling and investing them in rival currencies within the European Exchange ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 20 Aug 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-tottenham.pdf
