The view from the bridge

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[…] 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) FREE

[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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 43 or 44 45 46 14 Changing times . . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 – […]

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] none of it. He argues that Putin is reacting to a series of Western measures seen by Moscow as threatening and provocative. These include the establishment of missile defence systems in Eastern Europe to ‘within a rocket’s throw from Moscow’, the expansion of NATO towards Russia’s borders (this was a key feature of the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 29 Available from . 9 30 Twixt lip and cup (or something) A classic of the headline–and–text–differing genre was on the Daily Mail site of […]

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