The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the reports I read of the shooting down by the Iranians of the Ukrainian airliner referred to the occasion in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided- missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not […]

Yockey: A Fascist Odyssey by Kerry Bolton

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Russian demands because the United States was too weak to accept the threatened losses to the civilian population that a nuclear exchange would insure. Ironically, the Cuban missile crisis occurred not long after World in Flames was published. In that crisis, both powers went to the edge of nuclear war before working out a […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] 24 July 2013, at . 13 The fan convention was livestreamed by Mark Adam Harold, YouTube.com, 8 July 2023. See . Archived at . 14 4 and missile batteries, with residents advised to leave the city if possible to avoid the disruption.15 The nearby NAFO fan convention was opened in person by Lithuania’s Foreign […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] . 4 Under this deal BAE systems has supplied the Saudi Government with Tornado and Typhoon fighter bombers (and bombs for the planes), Hawk trainers, minesweepers and missile systems. These have all been used in recent years by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen. This has been characterised above all by a […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] One consequence of this was that the Lough Erne corridor remained in use for fighter and reconnaissance flights into the Atlantic. As noted above, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Seán Lemass authorised searches of aircraft that stopped over at Shannon between Warsaw Pact countries and Cuba; and that same year (1962) went on record […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] dossier furore: Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog’s report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria?’10 The answer to the question in the headline appears to be ‘Yes’. The email – reproduced in full on the Mail site – […]

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