View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] not know if Oswald was the first choice.) In a recent article Bleau analyses two groups of letters that have been found, discussing a Cuban attempt to kill JFK. Bleau notes that this disinformation operation began shortly after the defeat of the CIA’s Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.5 Bleau concludes: Find out who […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 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 68 69 For a brief account see or . 70 On which see see the piece on Byline News by Will Dean, ‘Georgian Officials Accused of […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and re-examining the previous inquiries, Susan Williams still cannot tell us who did kill US Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in 1961. Nor how it was done. Nor, for certain, that the plane crash in the Congo which killed him and […]

Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] of life occasioned to white troops by such expeditionary work would be avoided, whilst the cost would be considerably reduced’. The fact that such bombardment would inevitably kill noncombatants was more than compensated by the reduction in troop casualties and the comparative cheapness of the use of air power. And this seemed to be […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] ‘defining moment’ in ‘the Era of Pandemonium’, was the president discovering ‘that disinfectant kills the virus . . . Maybe injecting the right kind of disinfectant might kill the thing’. (pp. 184-185) At the time of writing the US death toll from the pandemic has just exceeded 600,000 people. Smock is also outraged by […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] racists are strangling Israel. Moses made it clear that he knew what went on inside the Knesset. He told me that the fanatics who regularly threatened to kill moderate politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] racists are strangling Israel. Moses made it clear that he knew what went on inside the Knesset. He told me that the fanatics who regularly threatened to kill moderate politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] had once signed a treaty with Sikorski and much later was able to declare on his honour that he had no knowledge of any Soviet attempt to kill the general. Both aircraft were parked close to a high wire fence which marked the frontier with neutral Spain and they were under observation by German […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain – part 2 V: The dogs of war You have to recognise that, you should tell people, that so much of the social media content that they are getting, that is popping up on their feeds or what-have-you . . . . It’s deliberately done. No different to […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and reexamining the previous inquiries, Susan Williams still cannot tell us who did kill US Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in 1961. Nor how it was done. Nor, for certain, that the plane crash in the Congo which killed him and […]

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