[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans. In 2002, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false […]
[…] apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans. In 2002, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false […]
[PDF file]: […] 1 aircraft (Airborne Warning and Control System), RAF Kinloss closed.1 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, other military systems, such as the Bloodhound surface to air missile, disappeared along with their bases. The military footprint in the UK shrank in what perhaps some would call the ‘peace dividend’ and others would describe as […]
[PDF file]: […] left by rockets fired – NATO alleges – from inside Russia into Eastern Ukraine.24 Yet neither NATO nor US intelligence has released any images of the anti-aircraft missile system – what, a hundred? two hundred? times as big as one of those scorch marks – which it is claimed was used to shoot down […]
[PDF file]: Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell Garrick Alder In response to an inquiry made by one of the twelve NASA astronauts to have walked on the Moon, the CIA prevented a future CIA Deputy Director from revealing the truth about the so-called ‘Roswell Incident’. The truth about the supposed crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft […]
[PDF file]: […] President Eisenhower threatened to use them in Korea, and offered them to the French in Vietnam. President Kennedy practised nuclear brinksmanship twice: the authors discuss the Cuban missile crisis, but not the equally serious crisis over NATO access to Berlin, for which the Pentagon offered a slate of nuclear options. Lyndon Johnson differentiated himself […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Douglas-Walter Mattheu (then) contemporary western, Lonely Are the Brave; * Kennedy meeting with the Joint Chiefs to discuss military budgets and apparently dissenting from the American nuclear missile targeting strategy of mass civilian deaths; * Kennedy touring nuclear missile bunkers in Omaha; * a black church being bombed in Alabama; * Kennedy meeting black […]
[PDF file]: […] made on 16 March, the date on which the theatre was destroyed. The attack on the theatre is presumed by Western leaders to have been a Russian missile strike, as the Ukrainian government announced soon after the incident. Russia claims that the theatre was blown up by Ukrainian troops in a ‘false flag’ attack. […]
