Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996 Nigel Norman Kim Besly was a peace campaigner and a regular visitor to the women’s camp at Greenham Common in the 1980’s.1 She did not match the stereotype of the ‘Greenham woman’. She was in her late fifties when she went to Greenham and had little involvement in politics […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] account of the Soviet-American contest (Britain entered the race but was swamped by the other two), first to acquire German rocket scientists and then to develop a missile, contains one chapter on a bit of dodgy business by an American on the committee deciding which of the rival bids should make the American missile, […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] weapons sales for (mostly American) weapons corporations. Reuters reported recently that NATO member Poland was about to 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.39 To sell weapons, ‘threats’ need to be created and thus the […]